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Ada Lovelace: The First Computer Programmer in 1843

She was the daughter of the poet Byron. But history knows Countess Lovelace much better as a mathematical genius and possibly the first computer hacker.

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Sleeping Beauties: The Victorians and Post-Mortem Photography

Less divorced from death than we are today, the Victorians took keepsakes that modern sensibilities would find too shocking to contemplate.

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Was the Irish Potato Famine a Genocide?

Between 1845-1851, nine million Irish people starved. At the same time, food was being shipped out of the country into England. It was enough to have fed eighteen million people.

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Timeline of the Irish Potato Famine 1845-1851

It was one of the darkest periods of the Victorian era. Even in the modern day, the population of Ireland has not yet recovered.

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Queen Victoria and the First British Diamond Jubilee

Until 2012, the only British monarch ever to have reigned for 60 years was Queen Victoria. Celebrations were held by a fifth of the world population.

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Was Thomas Cutbush Jack the Ripper?

New theories as to the Ripper’s identity emerge all the time; a recent entry on the suspect list is a young madman locked up in a mental hospital in 1891.

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The UK's Lost Commercial Ice Industry - The Ice Route from Norway to England

From the 1820s to the 1890s London merchants imported pure ice from the lakes and fjords of Norway. It was a thriving industry, requiring strength and skill from its workers.

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Puck Magazine, Very Collectible For a Number of Reasons

If you've never heard of Puck Magazine, you aren't alone. Puck's first English language edition, was published in New York City, in 1877, and it's last edition in 1918.

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Royal Scandal of Victoria and Lady Flora Hastings

Lady Flora Hastings unfairly suspected of illicit affair with nemesis of young Queen Victoria.

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Queen Victoria Targetted by Assassins

Eight different attempts to kill Queen Victoria must have given her the feeling she had a bulls-eye pinned on her; but the attackers were either bonkers, ham-fisted, or both.

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Scandal of the Bradley Martin Ball

A costume ball in 1897 New York lead to controversy and scandal.

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Safety Bicycle sparks cycling craze in US

In the 1880's a easy to use bicycle, the ancestor of modern bikes, was invented in England and became enormously popular.

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Newspaper Hoax Creatures on the Moon

In New York in the 1830's newspaper readers were astounded by the descriptions of life on the Moon.

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Royal Scandal Edward VII and Baccarat Cheating Scandal

Prince of Edward was involved in a house party where cheating was suspected. He wasn't involved but the scandal didn't help his already low reputation.