"Victorian" Blogs & Blog Posts

600 ks east of Perth, the City of Kalgoorlie was a unique expression of gold fever. Unlike most goldmining towns, which last for perhaps a dec­ade, Kalgoorlie includes the famous Golden Mile and has an economy driven by gold since 1893. The central...

Evy Rivera and Jacob Evans bought a "Cheap Old House." It was dirty and the unglamorous renovation could take years, but they're living their dream.

This portrait from 1896 features a woman with a rare condition, congenital nevus with hypertrichosis, that caused a mane of hair to grow from her back. The hair growing from between her shoulder blades looks like head hair, and seems to be well-cared...

After the crises of the Maritime Dispute in 1890, Shearers’ Dis­pute in 1891 and the Great Depression of early 1890s, many in Austral­ia’s work­­­ing class believed that their nation could never be a work­ingman’s parad­ise. Some were dr...

The Leviny house Buda, in Castlemaine bought and renovated in 1863Ernest Leviny (1818-1905) was a Hungarian and a citizen of the Austro Hungarian Empire. He moved from a small town to Budapest, to train as a silversmith and jeweller. In 184...

Welcoming back their surviving sons and brothers to Ballarat1919, Victorian Collections.Because dead soldiers were not repatriated to Australia from Europe during or after the Great War, the dead were had to be buried thousands of ks from...

Punctuation Personified* is a cute and silly book of punctuation marks brought to life from 1824. The cast of characters in the book have names like Counsellor Comma and Ensign Semicolon. I like how the characters all somehow look like the punctuatio...