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.
Imagine the scene in 1896 when sixteen artists known as the Circle Coecilia decided to trek from windy Ostend, Belgium Read More>...
Victorian New Year 1889—Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland had completed a little more than half their plotted courses around the Read More>...
Skeptics have questioned the science of Christmas Eve deliveries since the Victorian Santa Claus became popular. They attempted to calculate Read More>...
November 30, 1886. Under new management, the Folies-Bergere music hall at 32 Rue Richer in the foothills of Montmartre premiered its Read More>...
Like most holidays, Thanksgiving experienced growing pains to become the event we know today. George Washington proclaimed Tuesday, November 26 Read More>...
Catrina Skull (la Calavera Catrina) celebrates life on the Day of the Dead. Jose Guadalupe Posada’s elegant figure with her Read More>...
For a good time, Victorian Era revelers entered the gaping, toothy mouth of the monstrous Leviathan. Once inside, they descended Read More>...
The Hayden Geological Survey of 1871 was a game changer for Yellowstone. Prior to that, some Americans considered it ripe Read More>...
American County Fairs emerged in the early 1800s as a way for farmers to strut everything from vegetables to livestock. Read More>...
Yes, women were traveling on wheels long before bicycles. They blazed west in covered wagons, lugging their kin and piles Read More>...
Great Farini, or William Leonard Hunt (1838-1929) disappointed his parents who wanted him to become a doctor. Fascinated by the Read More>...
Danish painter and ceramicist Harald Slott-Moller (August 17, 1864 to October 20, 1937) was born in Copenhagen. He was formally Read More>...
Competition between newspapers was fierce in the 1890s. Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World and William Randolph Hearst’s New York Journal Read More>...
It all started as a patriotic celebration. The San Antonio Battle Of Flowers Parade was first launched during the Victorian Read More>...
Easter eggs symbolize life, renewal and cartons of fun by the dozens. People have decorated, rolled, hidden, hunted, tapped and Read More>...