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Part two – Leisure: how did people spend their free time in the 19th century?
Ruth explores exactly how little leisure time most people had in the 19th century – and what they did with their precious snatched hours
Published: November 13, 2024 at 10:52 AM
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Historian Ruth Goodman explores exactly how little leisure time most people had in the 19th century – and what they did with those precious snatched hours
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The Victorian working day was, in general, extraordinarily long, but people valued their leisure activities just as much as we do today. Here are five Victorian pastimes worth knowing about…
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Modern dog shows first began more than 150 years ago. Here, Neil Pemberton and Michael Worboys look at the 'Dog Fancy', a fashionable Victorian phenomenon which attracted controversy then as now
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If the Surrey Zoological Garden was anything to go by, a zoo in the Georgian and Victorian eras was so much more than a place to see animals from around the world. Joanne Cormac reveals how the entertainments put on – which included pyrotechnic re-enactments of the Great Fire of London – reflected Britons’ growing taste for the exotic in the 19th century
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Frozen Charlotte dolls: the Victorian Barbie
Long before Barbie ruled the doll market, a simple, durable and pale-white figure called Charlotte was the must-have children’s plaything – and it came with a haunting life lesson as an accessory
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