Portrait of Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (1724-1803) / Wikimedia Commons
This day 223 years ago: death of Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (1724-1803).
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Eureka Stockade, 1854: Australia’s only armed uprising. The Ballarat Reform League Charter drawn up largely by English Chartists and Irish Confederates made the same political demands as the People’s Charter
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Turkish baths attendant sitting outside the hot rooms reached through three doorways designed as a 20th century take on the Islamic keyhole-shaped arch. Two bathers working up a sweat in the hot rooms.
Are internal doorways allowed on #AdoorableThursday? If so, here are three interlinked doorways to the hot rooms in the Victorian-style #TurkishBaths at Gilkes Street, Middlesbrough, opened in 1933 and, sadly, demolished in 1998. 🗃️ #C19th
The #C19th Gaelic poet & songwriter Màiri Nic a’ Phearsain (Mary MacPherson) – known as Màiri Mhòr nan Òran (Great Mary of the Songs) – was born #OTD, 10 March 1821. Much of her work was political & was especially focused on the struggle for land rights
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Portrait of Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743-1825) / Wikimedia Commons
On this day (201 years ago), Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743-1825)’s death date.
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Chartist Lives - now out in hardback, paperback and ebook formats.
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What 1725 Scottish play was called ‘the noblest pastoral’ by Robert Burns, inspired more than 40 paintings, & was performed throughout Scotland as late as the end of the #C19th? Steven Newman considers Allan Ramsay’s most famous work
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‘Footsteps’. Statues at Franklin Wharf, Hobart, commemorating the 13,000 women transported to Van Diemen’s Land, and the 2,000 children they brought with them, 1803-53
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Portrait of Alphonse de Lamartine (1790-1869) / Wikimedia Commons
On this day (157 years ago), Alphonse de Lamartine (1790-1869)’s death date.
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Many Chartists made their way to Australia in the 1850s and contributed significantly to the country’s democracy movement. Their efforts have not been forgotten.
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Commemoration of the Red Ribbon Rebellion in the Australian goldfields. Lots of Chartist involvement. The flag, first flown in 1853, now hangs in Bendigo Trades Hall (just round the corner from the stones). Could be the only surviving Chartist banner anywhere in the world!
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Portrait of Fernando Corradi (1808-1885) / Wikimedia Commons
This day 141 years ago: Fernando Corradi (1808-1885) died this day.
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Byron Society PhD Bursary - up to £5,000 for 2026-27.
New & existing full-time PhD students enrolled at a UK university & working on any aspect of the life, work &/or influence of Lord Byron can apply. Deadline: May 1st, 2026. More details: www.thebyronsociety.com/phd-bursary #C19th #byron
Portrait of Thomas Moore (1779-1852) / Wikimedia Commons
On this date 174 years ago, Thomas Moore (1779-1852) died this day.
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Sepia photograph of the four storey Hotel Victoria in a busy street scene with a tram, and single decker and double decker open top buses. Demolished in the 1960s. The last sighting of the baths so far was in 1915 and it may be that they were, as were several others, originally closed ‘for the duration’, but never reopened after the war.
The hotel’s Turkish baths advertisement in the Southend Standard (1 Jun 1905) gives prices and opening hours. Tickets cost 2/- or 21/-for a book of twelve—though this had been reduced to 18/- by 1907. The baths were open from 11 am till 10 pm, and were closed on Sundays. Ladies day was on Friday.
#onthisday, 25 February 1905, Mr E A Broadhurst, owner of the Hotel Victoria in #Southend, opened the town's only #TurkishBaths in the hotel basement. 'Splendidly furnished & fitted with the latest conveniences'—there was no longer need to go to London for a Turkish. Closure date unknown. 🗃️ #C19th
Portrait of Dániel Berzsenyi (1776-1836) / Wikimedia Commons
Today marks the 190th anniversary of the death of Dániel Berzsenyi (1776-1836).
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Last chance to register if you fancy hearing me chat about how volcanos shaped some of your favourite gothic novels.
I can promise a LOT of volcano art, some early stage adaptations of Frankenstein, a cut scene from Dracula, & of course lots of Lord Byron!. 🌋 #c19th
Photograph of a seated Sutherland Macdonald displaying his tattoo design for a serpent.
Cover of what appears to be the front of a two sided circular, or possibly the cover of a small brochure, advertising his salon at the London Hammam, 76 Jermyn Street. A note at the top indicates to recipients that this is 'For private circulation only' due to its inclusion of the names of 'the highest Imperial and Royal personages in Europe' which are confidential! At the bottom Sutherland indicates that he will undertake any design at fixed prices. In the centre is a photograph of a tattooed male torso with the head of a tiger.
Photograph shows a male back with a tattoo of a winged female figure.
Plan and section of the proposed rooftop salon drawn by the London & Provincial Turkish Bath Company's architect, Arthur Cates, and submitted for approval in April 1895. There is also a detail of the roof guttering.
3/3 …In 1894 he patented his electric tattooing machine &, in 1895, a salon was built for him on the roof of the Hammam. In 1897 he bought 30 shares in the London & Provincial Turkish Baths Co Ltd, & 30 more later, only selling them in 1937. Died 1942. For image details, see ALT. 🗃️ #C19th
Advertisement from the Bridgend Chronicle (10 March 1893) for the recently opened baths which were open daily from 8 am till 8 pm. A two guinea subscription allowed unlimited baths during the year. Otherwise the charge was 2/- until 2 pm, and 1/6 afterwards. A book of 12 tickets cost 15/-, and Tuesdays were set aside for 'Ladies only'.
#onthisday, 23 February 1893, the #Neath Turkish Baths Co Ltd opened new #Turkishbaths in Alfred Street. The managers, Mr & Mrs Fraley, had previously managed those in Church Pl which closed 6 yrs earlier. Christadelphian converts were baptised in the plunge pool. The baths closed in 1912. 🗃️ #C19th
#onthisday, 23 February 1863, The #TurkishBaths for the Destitute Poor (popularly known as the People's Bath) opened at 17 Maylor Street #Cork, run by Miss Lizzie Barter & a 'committee of ladies'. Baths cost 1d or—in some cases—free. Cooling-room, 2 hot rms, & bathroom. Closed early 1890s. 🗃️ #C19th
Portrait of John Keats (1795-1821) / Wikimedia Commons
Portrait of Joanna Baillie (1762-1851) / Wikimedia Commons
On this day, John Keats (1795-1821) and Joanna Baillie (1762-1851) died this day.
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Portrait of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911) / Wikimedia Commons
Today marks the 115th anniversary of the death of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911).
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Portrait of Justinus Kerner (1786-1862) / Wikimedia Commons
OTD (164 years ago): date of death of Justinus Kerner (1786-1862).
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Original drawing of Brodrick’s Baths in Cookridge Street, c.1864. In this first design, each section of the building fits perfectly with the others. The colour image shows a single-storey building, with a central section flanked by two wings, each with a small pointed dome at the end, its façade decorated with horizontal polychrome brick stripes and surmounted by a decorative parapet. The central section has a wide arched recess which frames the doorways for male and female bathers. Above this is a pointed dome; behind it two pointed saucer domes; and behind that, a much large saucer dome with a low cone-topped lantern. At the rear is a tall minaret-styled structure designed to conceal the boiler-house chimney.
Decline and fall of a design - 1. The building actually constructed, included on an early advertising poster, was severely modified. Apart from the striped façade, decorative parapet, and some domes, the building was considerably changed being smaller and simpler. The ‘minaret’ and large central saucer dome have gone, and the remaining three central domes are differently shaped and sized. The central archway is now purely decorative and there are separate entrances, for gentlemen (on the left) and ladies (on the right). The building is smaller, with five instead of six windows in each wing, and these are of a simpler, less expensive design. Finally, the absence of any boiler house flue in a building with Turkish baths, suggests that even this view is not an accurate representation of what was built.
Decline and fall of a design - 2. The more prosaic drawing on the letterhead used by the company at the time is similar to the poster image, but a plain business-like flue is clearly shown behind the central, square-based pitched roof which has replaced the saucer dome.
Decline and fall of a design - 3. In 1880, the company had to increase its income and added a second storey to provide lettable offices, leaving the building looking more or less the same as in this 1969 photo. All the domes were removed and the façade refaced so as to fit in better with its neighbours. Brodrick had not been involved, and local newspapers did not consider this an improvement! When re-opened in 1882, the first-class Turkish baths had a cooling-room with fourteen divans, a fountain ‘with a figure representing one of the naiades holding a water-lily from which a jet of water is thrown’, a plunge pool, and a gallery for smokers made possible by the addition of the second floor. There were three hot rooms at 125°F, 170°F, and 230°F, a shampooing room with four slabs, and a washing room with a variety of showers. The second-class baths were similar, but without a third hot room. Additionally, there were separate baths for women, including a mikveh 'built at the request of the Jewish community, from plans supplied by the Chief Rabbi, and used exclusively by Hebrews…'
#onthisday, 21 February 1867, the Victorian #TurkishBaths in Cookridge St, #Leeds, designed by Cuthbert Brodrick for the Oriental & General Bath Co of Leeds Ltd, was opened. The baths were purchased by Leeds Corporation in 1898, were refurbished, and remained open till 4 February 1965. +ALT 🗃️ #C19th
Portrait of José da Silva Maia Ferreira (1827-1881) / Wikimedia Commons
Today marks the 145th anniversary of the death of José da Silva Maia Ferreira (1827-1881).
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Advertisement in the Oxford Chronicle (2 March 1861) shortly after the bath opened 'to the Members of the University, and Public generally' giving opening hours and charges. Entrance was 2/- or 1/- according to the time of day, with shampooing an extra 6d.
Advertisement in the Oxford Chronicle (25 May 1861) announcing that the first two hours each day would now be reserved for women. There follows a testimonial from a lady praising its therapeutic capability and recommending it to other ladies.
Auctioneer’s advertisement in the Oxford Chronicle (2 March 1878) for the sale of the baths after Job Tolley's death the previous year. Lists the facilities including the Turkish baths with cooling-room and two hot rooms, showers, etc, two courts, the swimming bath 44ft x 83ft long, and a substantive house. The Bath Street frontage was 64ft with 156ft on the River Cherwell. The baths were unsold, and were presumably sold later by private treaty, but the Turkish baths never re-opened.
#onthisday, 18 February 1861, Job Tolley opened the new #TurkishBaths he had added to his 1827-built swimming baths. He later added Fives, or Racquet, courts. Prices were lower during university vacs and women had two half-days. The baths closed in 1877, about 18 months before Tolley died. 🗃️ #C19th
Portrait of Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) / Wikimedia Commons
Portrait of James Macpherson (1736-1796) / Wikimedia Commons
Portrait of José Amador de los Ríos (1818-1878) / Wikimedia Commons
On this day, death of Heinrich Heine (1797-1856), James Macpherson (1736-1796), and José Amador de los Ríos (1818-1878).
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“Nothing could be so delightful as the style of living in Scotland; the people were so frank & gay, & the manners so easy & engaging…”
Susan Ferrier’s novel MARRIAGE looks at what happens when #romantic notions of the Highlands meet cold, damp reality…
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"This conceit which understands how to belittle every truth, in order to turn back into itself and gloat over its own understanding, which knows how to dissolve every thought and always find the same barren ego instead of any content - this is a satisfaction which we must leave to itself, for it flees from the universal, and seeks only to be for itself. -Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit
Portrait of Ghalib (Mirza Asadullah Beg Khan) (1797-1869) / Wikimedia Commons
On this day (157 years ago), Ghalib (Mirza Asadullah Beg Khan) (1797-1869) died this day.
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