All the Year Round

Happy New Year! In this episode we talk about Victorian New Year traditions and think about the way resolutions were made (or not) then and now. We also set out our own exciting resolutions for All the Year Round in the year to come.

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It's Christmas! As many are searching for the latest gadgets to give as gifts, or wondering which party games might go down well after Christmas dinner, we look at how the Victorians answered those festive dilemmas. We also explore what the Victorians were reading at Christmas in periodicals like All the Year Round, edited by Charles Dickens. [Warning: we would not suggest trying all of these party games at home!]

A huge thank you to all of our viewers and listeners in 2023. We wish you all a very merry Christmas! Here is a little victorian gift from us! https://imgur.com/CVwYgVu

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In this episode we delve into the dark world of the double brain and to celebrate the birthday of Robert Louis Stevenson, we do it by looking at The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde! Is it worth releasing your ‘bad’ side? Victorian science suggests not!

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For Halloween we delve into the weird world of Victorian dreams. Join us as we talk about experiments, spirits and prophecies, as well as attempting some genuine Victorian dream interpretation! WATCH US: https://www.youtube.com/@victorianism LISTEN TO US: https://open.spotify.com/show/01l0rmgnYNKDUXxiAXh5pm and https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/all-the-year-round/id1671414567 FIND US: https://twitter.com/AllYearRoundPod and https://www.instagram.com/allyearroundpod/

In honour of Elizabeth Gaskell's birthday, this month we paid a visit to her house in Manchester. Lovingly restored with authentic Victorian furniture, the house transports you back in time to really get a feel for the environment in which Gaskell wrote the books which are still so loved today. Join us for Victorian secrets, Dickens drama and fun facts about cute cats!

Home elizabethgaskellhouse.co.uk

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Please note: trigger warning for infant death

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This month we had the honour of visiting the Symington collection of corsets at an archive in Barrow-upon-Soar. Sarah Nichol was kind enough to chat to us about the kinds of corsets Victorian women wore to keep cool while on holiday, or while undertaking their daily summer activities! So how comfortable were corsets?Does the archival evidence back up the claims of the day?And what’s the story behind this huge Victorian factory in a market town of Leicestershire? We would like to extend a huge thank you to Sarah Nichol. You can find out more about her work and the collection here:https://leicestershirecollections.org.uk/http://www.instagram.com/leicestershire_collections/John Liddell’s ebay store can be found here: https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_dkr=1&iconV2Request=true&_blrs=recall_filtering&_ssn=john-liddell&_oac=1

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The Secret Language of Flowers! When did the art of sending bouquets of flowers, with hidden messages conveyed through each symbolic bloom become so popular? Did people really send messages to each other through flowers? How did men and women of the Victorian era use flowers as symbols in their daily lives? Find out all this and more in this month’s episode!

KEY SOURCES:

The poem read at the beginning of the episode is "The Language of Flowers", an unpublished song from a poem by the American geologist and poet James Gates Percival, with music written by the English composer Edward Elgar when he was only fourteen years old. It is dated 29 May 1872, inscribed "by Edward W. Elgar", with "words by Percival" (at first thought to be Elgar himself) and dedicated "to my sister Lucy on her birthday."

The Floral Offering: A Token of Friendship by Frances Sargent Osgood (Carey and Hart), 1847

The Language of Flowers by an Unknown Author (London: Ernest Nigler),

1850French Flower Books of the Early Nineteenth Century by Beverley Seaton,

Nineteenth-Century French Studies, Fall—Winter 1982—83, Vol. 11, No. ½ (Fall—Winter 1982—83), pp. 60-71

Language of Flowers: a Miscellany by Mandy Kirkby (Pan Macmillan), 2011

The Language of Flowers: A History by Beverley Seaton (London: University of Virginia Press), 2012

Language of Flowers - Illustrated by Kate Greenaway (London: Read Books Limited), 2013

The Meaning of Flowers: Myth, Language & Lore by Gretchen Scoble and Ann Field (California: Chronicler Books LLC), 2014

The Reason for Flowers: Their History, Culture, Biology, and How They Change Our Lives by Stephen Buchmann (London: Scribner), 2015

Floriography: The Myths, Magic & Language of Flowers by Sally Coulthard and Clover Robin (Quadrille), 2021

The Complete Language of Flowers: A Definitive and Illustrated History by S. Theresa Dietz (New York: Wellfleet Press), 2022

Flowers and Their Meanings: The Secret Language and History of Over 600 Blooms (A Flower Dictionary) by Karen Azoulay (United States: Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed), 2023

‘Painting of Queen Victoria by Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1805-73). Currently held by the Royal Collection Trust’

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