Other Talks on SpeakerNet by Anne, The Bustle Lady

• The Bustle, and Sheffield’s part in this global fashion phenomenon
• The change from agriculture to housing
• Is the Modern World making us sick?
• Sanitation in the mid-Victorian era
• The (hidden) work done by women
• Those Creative Victorian ladies
• Victorian ‘secrets’: what Victorian ladies wore under their dresses
• Victorian scientists and inventors: the good, the bad and the “what were they thinking?”
• The Victorians invented the afternoon tea party
• Cooking in the Victorian kitchen
• Plant hunters and alien invaders
• The Victorian culture of death and mourning
• Prostitutes, bigamists and second families
• The wonders of gas
• Food scandals, food adulteration, then and now