# nineteenth century (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 4 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover nineteenth century. Page: Feed: --- ## [Tracing lives through allotment records](https://www.essexrecordofficeblog.co.uk/tracing-lives-through-allotment-records/) _2026-08-18 · admin · The blog of the Essex Record Office_ Once you’ve explored the main family history sources, it’s worth investigating the records that survive for the towns and boroughs where your ancestors lived. Local records can reveal a lot about their lives, documenting their trades, involvement in community affairs, … Continue reading → ## [A Mystery Writer Investigates– The Balham Mystery](https://karibovee.substack.com/p/a-mystery-writer-investigates-the-af4) _2026-08-18 · Kari Bovee · Kari Bovee_ Part Two: The Marriage ## [When the Dead Sent Telegrams](https://karibovee.substack.com/p/when-the-dead-sent-telegrams) _2026-08-04 · Kari Bovee · Kari Bovee_ For July 21, 2026 ## [Grounds for Appeal at the Essex Record Office](https://www.essexrecordofficeblog.co.uk/grounds-for-appeal-at-the-essex-record-office/) _2026-07-29 · admin · The blog of the Essex Record Office_ Here at the Essex Record Office (ERO) we are pleased to be taking part in the national Grounds for Appeal (GfA) project. While there are not a huge number of surviving records at ERO in comparison to some of our project partners, it is still great to be able to participate in the GfA project and contribute the data from our records to the national database that is being constructed. Continue… ## [Why the Victorians Covered Their Mirrors](https://karibovee.substack.com/p/why-the-victorians-covered-their) _2026-07-28 · Kari Bovee · Kari Bovee_ For July 28, 2026 ## [Of Gallows](https://www.essexrecordofficeblog.co.uk/of-gallows/) _2026-07-22 · admin · The blog of the Essex Record Office_ Here at the Essex Record Office our Archive Assistant (and events wrangler) Neil Wiffen has been looking at things again, specifically the 1777 Chapman and André map of Essex. Here he explains all: Continue reading → ## [The Woman They Tried to Erase Was Standing Right There](https://karibovee.substack.com/p/the-woman-they-tried-to-erase-was) _2026-07-21 · Kari Bovee_ On the historical women who were silenced for knowing too much—and the fictional ones I built in their image. ## [The Poison Garden](https://karibovee.substack.com/p/the-poison-garden) _2026-07-14 · Kari Bovee · Kari Bovee_ In the nineteenth century, knowing your plants was the mark of a well-bred woman. ## [How Grace Michelle navigates a world where everyone is watching — and knowing too much can cost you everything.](https://karibovee.substack.com/p/how-grace-michelle-navigates-a-world) _2026-07-07 · Kari Bovee_ In the mid-1920s, a young woman named Louise Brooks left Kansas, danced in George White’s Scandals, and then joined the Ziegfeld Follies on 42nd Street. ## [She Testified in a Courtroom Held Inside a Jailhouse](https://karibovee.substack.com/p/she-testified-in-a-courtroom-held) _2026-06-23 · Kari Bovee_ Five historical details that sound invented—and how they inspired my fiction. ## [Refer a Friend, Earn Rewards (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/Pd0aQepCcLiI) _2026-06-23 · **Sponsored**_ Earn rewards when a friend signs up for the Graphite Business Card ## [A House History Case Study: ERO Search Service](https://www.essexrecordofficeblog.co.uk/a-house-history-case-study-ero-search-service/) _2026-06-20 · admin · The blog of the Essex Record Office_ In this blog post, Archive Assistant Robert Lee explores a previous example of how the ERO Search Service can assist with property history. One such case was a search request from Mr. Ben Parker of Great Braxted. The purpose of … Continue reading → ## [Murder Without the Mayhem](https://karibovee.substack.com/p/murder-without-the-mayhem) _2026-06-16 · Kari Bovee · Kari Bovee_ What a cozy mystery actually is, where it came from, and why millions of readers are devoted to the genre. ## [On writing amateur female detectives in eras that punished women for paying attention.](https://karibovee.substack.com/p/on-writing-amateur-female-detectives) _2026-06-09 · Kari Bovee · Kari Bovee_ On the morning of June 18, 1860, the county sheriff arrived at the home of Elizabeth Packard. ## [Investigating Your Property’s History: ERO Search Service](https://www.essexrecordofficeblog.co.uk/investigating-your-propertys-history-ero-search-service/) _2026-05-28 · admin · The blog of the Essex Record Office_ Archive Assistant Desmond Crone highlights examples of the types of material that you might find in the Essex Record Office collections when researching your property. Some are from searches recently carried out for customers of our Search Service. MapsModern copies … Continue reading → ## [“This looks like a big business”: The 1926 General Strike in Essex](https://www.essexrecordofficeblog.co.uk/this-looks-like-a-big-business-the-1926-general-strike-in-essex/) _2026-04-30 · admin · The blog of the Essex Record Office_ In early May 1926, Britain was brought to a standstill. For nine days, over 1.5 million workers stopped work in support of coal miners facing wage cuts and longer working hours. Although the strike was national, its impact was profoundly … Continue reading → [Listen](https://www.essexrecordofficeblog.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/SA-003-0532-1-Side-A-Mrs-G-Ollington-on-the-1926-General-Strike.mp3) ## [Transcribing 16th Century Wills: ERO Search Service](https://www.essexrecordofficeblog.co.uk/transcribing-16th-century-wills-ero-search-service/) _2026-03-29 · admin · The blog of the Essex Record Office_ In the first in a series of case studies on our search service, Archive Assistant Robert Lee takes a look at a search request to show what a will transcription may involve. Transcribing wills is not always an easy endeavour, … Continue reading → ## [Women’s War Work: Women’s History Month 2026](https://www.essexrecordofficeblog.co.uk/womens-war-work-womens-history-month-2026/) _2026-03-24 · admin · The blog of the Essex Record Office_ To celebrate Women’s History Month 2026, Archive Assistant Rhiannon Bush has found records which illustrate the work women completed during WWI. In this post we would like to highlight a booklet published by the War Office which explores the important … Continue reading → ## [British Science Week and School Archives Day 2026](https://www.essexrecordofficeblog.co.uk/british-science-week-and-schools-archive-day-2026/) _2026-03-12 · admin · The blog of the Essex Record Office_ British Science Week, first held in 1994, is an annual ten-day celebration, and this year it is running 6th – 15th March. It is organised to celebrate, through a variety of events; science, technology, engineering and maths, and is intended … Continue reading → ## [An Introduction to the ERO Search Service](https://www.essexrecordofficeblog.co.uk/ero-search-service/) _2026-02-24 · admin · The blog of the Essex Record Office_ Here at ERO we offer an in-house search service, wherein researchers can request archival material to be examined and reported on. This can be ideal for those keen to access historical Essex records that cannot otherwise visit the archives in … Continue reading → ## [Lyria Sings a History for Itself: Musical Eras Through the Ears of AI (1450-2035)](https://griffonagedotcom.wordpress.com/2026/02/22/lyria-sings-a-history-of-the-future-musical-eras-through-the-ears-of-ai-1450-2035/) _2026-02-22 · Patrick Feaster · Griffonage-Dot-Com_ I m always curious to see how generative AI tools will fare when asked to mimic content from different time periods, and when Google launched Lyria 3 through the Gemini app on February 18, 2026 — just three days ago as of this writing — that s the first task it occurred to me to put to [Listen](http://octaverter.com/audio/lyria/lyria_through_time.mp3) ## [Chovy's Blog: Agentic Coding (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/25HzvVAYvPeU) _2026-02-22 · **Sponsored**_ Personal posts on agentic coding, moshcode CLI, and security findings. ## [The Iconic 1876 Portrait of Alexander Graham Bell](https://griffonagedotcom.wordpress.com/2025/12/30/the-iconic-1876-portrait-of-alexander-graham-bell/) _2025-12-30 · Patrick Feaster · Griffonage-Dot-Com_ Back in August 2013, a cabinet card came up for auction on eBay, described by the seller as depicting an exceptionally handsome man with a moustache and mutton chop whiskers. I was the high bidder at $39.50, maybe five to ten times what such things usually fetch — an outcome that suggests someone else had ## [Introducing the AI Fiction Duel](https://griffonagedotcom.wordpress.com/2025/12/02/introducing-the-ai-fiction-duel/) _2025-12-02 · Patrick Feaster · Griffonage-Dot-Com_ One critic calls it definitely the most hilarious literary experiment of the decade and perhaps the strangest form of literary competition ever conceived — and that s even before any human being but me has seen any of it yet. Welcome to the AI Fiction Duel, Griffonage-Dot-Com s first foray into the brave new world of machine-generated [Listen](http://octaverter.com/aifictionduel/notebook_lm/Anatomy_of_an_AI_Duel.mp4) ## [“Vaudeville on the Screen”: Renfax Musical Motion Pictures (1913-1920)](https://griffonagedotcom.wordpress.com/2025/09/27/vaudeville-on-the-screen-renfax-musical-motion-pictures-1913-1920/) _2025-09-27 · Patrick Feaster · Griffonage-Dot-Com_ Did you know that The Jazz Singer (1927) wasn t necessarily the first Al Jolson sound film? And did you know that acoustic-era recording artists Collins and Harlan, Cal Stewart, Billy Murray, and others featured in early sound films as well? If you didn t, you re not alone: the Renfax Musical Motion Pictures are all but forgotten today, earning ## [136 Visual Artworks That Are Also Musical Sound Spectrograms](https://griffonagedotcom.wordpress.com/2025/09/06/136-visual-artworks-that-are-also-musical-sound-spectrograms/) _2025-09-06 · Patrick Feaster · Griffonage-Dot-Com_ They re visually striking images and playable musical audio at the same time. I ve been calling them synesthetic sound-pictures. You ll find a huge assortment of recent examples below — 136 of them, to be precise — and if you d like to try making some others of your own, I ll provide instructions at the end for that [Listen](http://octaverter.com/audio/sd/syn/compendium.mp3) ## [Numerical Prompting with SyDNEy: An Illustrated Tour of the PROC Skew](https://griffonagedotcom.wordpress.com/2025/05/20/numerical-prompting-with-sydney-an-illustrated-tour-of-the-proc-skew/) _2025-05-20 · Patrick Feaster · Griffonage-Dot-Com_ Numerical prompting is a little-known secret weapon for creating interesting AI-generated images and sounds. The adjustments it involves are fairly simple to make, technically speaking, but learning how to use them intelligently to yield desired results promises to be a long, slow, limitless voyage of discovery. I started experimenting with Stable Diffusion two years ago, [Listen](http://octaverter.com/audio/sd/proc/trad2_10002_default.mp3) ## [Lest We Forget: Eternal Vigilance Against Tyranny (1943)](https://griffonagedotcom.wordpress.com/2025/04/11/lest-we-forget-eternal-vigilance-against-tyranny-1943/) _2025-04-11 · Patrick Feaster · Griffonage-Dot-Com_ What did the generation of Americans who fought in the Second World War believe they were fighting to protect? Let s listen to a radio program from 1943 to find out. The recording offered here comes from the series Lest We Forget, produced by the Institute of Oral and Visual Education (which later morphed into the [Listen](http://octaverter.com/audio/lest_we_forget/LWF_7_1.mp3) ## [Tariff Stamps: A New Art Form For Our Times](https://griffonagedotcom.wordpress.com/2025/04/05/tariff-stamps-a-new-art-form-for-our-times/) _2025-04-05 · Patrick Feaster · Griffonage-Dot-Com_ Now that Liberation Day has finally come and gone and the United States government is imposing heavy tariffs on all imports, it occurs to me that we ll need some way of marking consumer goods to indicate that a tariff has been paid on them. In the future, whenever Americans spot an unexpectedly high price on ## [Two Nineteenth-Century Postal Cards Written in the Same Secret Cipher](https://griffonagedotcom.wordpress.com/2025/03/03/two-nineteenth-century-postal-cards-written-in-the-same-secret-cipher/) _2025-03-03 · Patrick Feaster · Griffonage-Dot-Com_ An eBay seller recently auctioned two nineteenth-century postal cards, separately, describing each as written in shorthand. It took me only the briefest of glances to recognize that they were written not in shorthand (in the interest of speed), but in cipher (in the interest of secrecy). The fact that they appeared to share many of ## [The “Phonography” of Celestin Schwarz: A Quirky Cipher from Nineteenth-Century Cincinnati](https://griffonagedotcom.wordpress.com/2025/02/09/the-phonography-of-celestin-schwarz-a-quirky-cipher-from-nineteenth-century-cincinnati/) _2025-02-09 · Patrick Feaster · Griffonage-Dot-Com_ On July 31, 1896, an unusual postal card arrived in Freiburg im Breisgau, then part of the Grand Duchy of Baden within the German Empire. It had been mailed from Cincinnati, Ohio on July 20th, addressed to the Anzeiger in Freiburg — that is, to the Freiburger Anzeiger, one of the local newspapers. Somehow this