Victorian era

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• SOURCE: CommonPlace
  4/12/2022
  

  Bicycles and Women's Liberation in Victorian America

  by Anya Jabour

  The cycling craze of the 1890s was embraced with particular fervor by affluent white women, who seized opportunities for mobility and public sociability presented by the new technology of the "safety" bicycle.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  6/4/2020
  

  How Lavender Became a Symbol of LGBTQ Resistance

  Historians David K. Johnston and Kassia St. Clair comment on the social and technological changes that helped make the color a secret, then open, political symbol. 

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• SOURCE: Nursing Clio
  3/24/2020
  

  Joking in the Time of Pandemic: The 1889–92 Flu and 2020 COVID-19

  by Kristin Brig

  As we see with COVID-19, the darkest periods in history expose the best — and worst — of humanity.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  9-6-18
  

  Victorian-Era Orgasms and the Crisis of Peer Review

  A favorite anecdote about the origins of the vibrator is probably a myth.

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• SOURCE: BBC News
  12-11-13
  

  10 dangerous things in Victorian/Edwardian homes

  You'd be surprised at how dangerous everyday life was in the 1880s.