A bit of #Caturday history: Aviator John Moisant and Mademoiselle Fifi, who flew with him over the English Channel in 1910. (Via Library of Congress)

Our #Caturday Feline of the Week is Inky, a blind dog's best friend. (Asbury Park Press 1951, via Newspapers.com)

Spring dances on #Caturday . Did the 'Kitty-Trot' ever make it to the ballroom floor?
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A treat for Saturday. Mid-19th century American silk dress. Via The Met. #dresshistory #fashionhistory #Saturday

London: today at 5pm at the British Library - I'll be speaking about THE FACEMAKER and signing copies of the book. Hope to see you there: thebritishlibrary.seetickets.com/event/the-face…

6 Days to my paper at International Conference on Cemetery Studies at Harokopio University of Athens in Athens. At the heart of the paper is the concept of promotion - how does a trade attract customers and talk about its services - by the 1840s the trade had been doing this for over a century!

Excited to read this book. Its waiting on my basket for payday

My pleasure! Landis Blair's work is sublime!

Dr Helen Frisby on Victorian funeral customs, traditions of death and burial, sineaters as 'perfect folklore', and being an independent researcher

Happy Easter 🐣🐰

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As a result of numerous cases of people stealing & selling human remains as “oddities & curiosities,” Minnesota has introduced a bill that would prohibit the sale of human remains. More on the bill here: fox9.com/news/selling-h…

An alphabet I made to celebrate the UK paperback edition of my book 'The Little Wooden Robot and the Log Princess' which came out yesterday from Templar Books . Links for the book are at tomgauld.com

Next Thursday I’ll be giving a virtual talk about my new lil book, Stitching Freedom: Embroidery and Incarceration. Please join me and Laura Moseley as we talk about centuries of embroidery made in prisons, workhouses, and mental health hospitals eventbrite.co.uk/e/craft-in-con…

Where the streets are paved with…bones! An example of animal bone (cattle & sheep) flooring from Park End Street in Oxford - 12 examples of bone flooring have been found in the county! 17th cent. On display at Museum of Oxford #Oxford #bones

A beloved dog's funeral. Does anyone know what the box (?) on a post in the background is?
#TheVictorianBookoftheDead

Given all the reports on rising suicide rates, we highly recommend listening to our latest episode with suicide researcher M. F. Alvarez 🏳️‍🌈

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The only sensible response to any of this is 'You can see me?'

In a week’s time I will be talking about cemeteries and the promotion of the undertaking trade at the International Conference on Cemetery Studies at Harokopio University of Athens in Athens. Each day I will tweet some of the context to the paper - it’s funerary research on the road time!

I'm working on a talk based on my latest book. What Victorian death terms/artifacts/traditions would you like to hear about?

A #ForteanFriday post: Lincoln’s death predicted by a variety of seers including an astrologer who cast a horoscope, a trance medium, and a young student using the manual alphabet.
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