Tag: Victorian

New ‘Penny Dreadful’ Teaser Teaches a History of the Occult

From Dreadcentral.com:

In the upcoming season Vanessa (Eva Green) and Ethan (Josh Hartnett) form a deeper bond as the group, including Sir Malcolm (Timothy Dalton), Dr. Frankenstein (Harry Treadaway), and Sembene (Danny Sapani), unite to banish the evil forces that threaten to destroy them. Meanwhile, Dorian Gray (Reeve Carney), the Creature (Rory Kinnear), and Brona (Billie Piper) are all waging battles of their own.

Read more at the Dreadcentral.com site.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=In6cyZkRPy8

The Cannibal Club: Racism & Rabble-rousing in Victorian England

An article about Victorian liberals who supported racist science

Phrenology

Illustration of a goniometer, an instrument used in the study of phrenology. The device was intended to measure the human skill and use those measurements to make predictions about a person’s individual characteristics, such as mathematical ability, moral sense, and reproductive instincts.
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