#georgian period

[fashion-from-the-past]

[romanceandshenanigans]

Question for historical tumblr. Are there any good sources for reading up on queer history during the early 1800s in England?

For various reasons my googling has come up short and I could use an extra hand. Anything specifically pertaining to terminology, general attitudes, and symbols used within the queer community during that time period would be much appreciated. Thanks!

[werewolfetone]

My favourite thing is when I read something by a modern blogger who studies Georgian British history and they're talking about the American Revolution with such disdain and utter disgust like yes girl take it personally

[hot-celebrity-lover]

"and now, disengag’d from the shirt, I saw, with wonder and surprise, what? not the play-thing of a boy, not the weapon of a man, but a maypole of so enormous a standard, that had proportions been observ’d, it must have belong’d to a young giant. Its prodigious size made me shrink again; yet I could not, without pleasure, behold, and even ventur’d to feel, such a length, such a breadth of animated ivory! perfectly well turn’d and fashion’d, the proud stiffness of which distended its skin, whose smooth polish and velvet softness might vie with that of the most delicate of our sex, and whose exquisite whiteness was not a little set off by a sprout of black curling hair round the root..."

[bookliteratibookreviews]

Mr Hammond and the Poetic Apprentice by Mellany Ambrose

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Matador (17 April 2023)Language ‏ : ‎ EnglishPaperback ‏ : ‎ 360 pagesISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1803136766ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1803136769 Book Blurb Summer, 1814. Thomas Hammond is an apothecary surgeon in a village near London whose dreams of a grand medical career were ruined by a shameful secret. He longs to see his apprentice, his son Edward, become a great surgeon. His other apprentice is…

[lover-of-books-and-cats]

Georgian Age Aesthetic

[iridessence]

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CdbsVXWPZSn/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

[pintsofguinnesmakeyoustrong]

god i absolutely hate when characters in period dramas have perfect hair and flawless skin and white teeth and a full face of makeup at all times like bitch it is 1789 there is no maybelline only consumption

[thiefbird]

Happy Christmas I'm reading a doctoral thesis submitted to Exeter in 2010 titled "A Social History of Midshipmen and Quarterdeck Boys in the Royal Navy, 1761-1831" so I can more accurately decide what age I want to make a fully fictional junior officer rank for a ttrpg I'm adapting

[quietparanoiac]

— Are you trying to tell me that I, the King's own physician, am making the King worse? Are you insane? — Insane? — Because if you are insane, I shall have to treat you, too.

Horrible Histories (2009-2014), 2x06

[oceancentury]

Aristocrats (1999), set from 1744 to 1798, it is based on the lives of the Lennox sisters, daughters of the Duke of Richmond (played by Julian Fellowes). Their paternal grandfather was an illegitimate son of King Charles II.

[missdreamalot]

Jane Eyre (1983). dir. Julian Amyes

[princepotatosack]

why do they keep bringing up the waltz in TDA when it wasnt even invented until the mid 1800s……. like if it was just a passing reference i wouldve just been like oh its just an inconsequential research oversight so whatever. but like they keep coming back to it lmao

[mopsburgfalls]

[hot-celebrity-lover]

Ain't she absolutely gorgeous. Look at that jaw-line, Romola Garai, Amazing Grace 2006

[marzipanandminutiae]

You made a post stating that pierced ears weren’t accepted in America from the 20s to 60s, but I was under the impression that many women, esp in the 40s and 50s, often wore classic Pearl or diamond stud earrings. Have I been deceived by Hollywood again?? :c

Clip-ons and screw-backs, my dear Anon!

(Screw-back earrings, c. 1950s)

Piercing your ears was frowned upon, but wearing earrings remained wildly popular. I don't understand the logic here, since it looks functionally identical to wearing pierced earrings in practice, but apparently that was A-okay.

Earring clamped onto your ear? Fine! That exact same earring going through your ear? DIRTY AND/OR FOREIGN HARLOT.

Make it make sense.

(Pierced earrings DID still exist, since some women- for cultural or personal reasons -bucked the zeitgeist. But they were by far the less common of the two options.)

(Also, clips and screw-backs hurt in my experience. Like. You have your ear pinched in a vise for as long as you're wearing them, basically. My mom, born 1953, remembers Grandma taking her clip earrings off the second she got home from a party, always. And yet I saw clips advertised as "torture-free" earrings in a 1930s ad. Yes, skip the torture of like 30 seconds with a needle for the comfort and ease of clamping something heavy onto your ear with sheer pressure, all day long.)

(The whole "pierced ears bad" fad makes about the least sense to me of any fashion-related historical Hot Take.)