Hacker News with Generative AI: Victorian Era

Infectious diseases in Victorian novels highlight public health fragility now (theconversation.com)
Modern medicine has enabled citizens of wealthy, industrialized nations to forget that children once routinely died in shocking numbers. Teaching 19th-century English literature, I regularly encounter gutting depictions of losing a child, and I am reminded that not knowing the emotional cost of widespread child mortality is a luxury.

Public Health, Literature, History, Victorian Era

14 points by rntn 33 days ago | 2 comments

Lady Baker and the Source of the Nile (harkness.substack.com)
Among the thousands and thousands of handwritten letters preserved in the British Library from the pen of the Victorian publisher Alexander Macmillan, one in particular piqued my interest: written to the heroic explorer of the sources of the Nile, Sir Samuel Baker, on 4 May 1866:

History, Exploration, British Library, Victorian Era, Letters

15 points by Caiero 81 days ago | 0 comments

Victorian Artistic Printing (2009) (sheaff-ephemera.com)

Victorian Era, Art, Printing, History

21 points by jfil 156 days ago | 3 comments

Voice is a garden: Margaret Watts Hughes's Victorian sound visualizations (themarginalian.org)

Art, Victorian Era, Sound Art, Visualizations

76 points by benbreen 161 days ago | 10 comments

Behind Victorian Bars (historytoday.com)

History, Victorian Era, England, Prisons

4 points by Caiero 190 days ago | 6 comments

Wordsworth Donisthorpe, Blackmail, and the First Motion Pictures (publicdomainreview.org)