Author: hayley

The Victorian’s idea of ‘Home Care’ didn’t just involve physical exercise, they also had to come up with inventive ways to pass the time and stay mentally stimulated while at home – with no television or internet! Victorian Parlour Games

The ‘Land of Death’ in which we dwelt was Newington, hemmed in by Lambeth, Southwark, Walworth, Bermondsey, and other gloomy parishes, through which the pestilence stalked like a destroying angelin the deep shadows of the night and the open noon