Strange Times offers a treasure trove of outlandish, funny, sometimes shocking stories from Victorian Era. Explore Victorian ideas, customs, holidays, clothing, architecture, art, women, men, businesses, leisure activities and more.
Nov. 14, 1889. Nellie Bly packed her single hand bag so efficiently, that it would put to shame even today’s Read More>...
Nellie Bly: Her skeptical editor at the New York World Newspaper initially rejected her proposal to beat Jules Verne’s fictional Read More>...
Queen Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria, May, 1819 – January, 1901) was the longest reigning monarch in British history (63 years) from Read More>...
In 1889, Nellie Bly launched on a trip around the world, attempting to turn the fictional Around the World in Read More>...
The Victorian Era was an explosive time for inventions. It seems we couldn’t live without countless items that saw their beginnings Read More>...
Did this film titled “Professor Welton’s Boxing Cats,” spawn today’s crazy cats gone bad videos? If so, did Thomas Edison Read More>...
Today we have Spanx, although some die hards will not relinquish their corsets. Corsets have pushed, pulled, squeezed, flattened, widened, Read More>...