Skip to main content

Search This Blog

Crinoline Robot

Vintage, alternate histories and the world of tomorrow!

Pages

Home

Posts

Showing posts with the label Georgian

January 02, 2024

It's the end of the year as we know it

Get link
Facebook
X
Pinterest
Email
Other Apps

January 30, 2023

It's 2023!

Get link
Facebook
X
Pinterest
Email
Other Apps

December 26, 2022

Cosy times and Party Skeleton

Get link
Facebook
X
Pinterest
Email
Other Apps

September 07, 2018

New India-set historical drama for ITV

Get link
Facebook
X
Pinterest
Email
Other Apps

A day at Ickworth

Get link
Facebook
X
Pinterest
Email
Other Apps

Living Literature: Frankenstein

Get link
Facebook
X
Pinterest
Email
Other Apps

February 14, 2018

The scandal of Georgian Calcutta

Get link
Facebook
X
Pinterest
Email
Other Apps

Cream of Cornish

Get link
Facebook
X
Pinterest
Email
Other Apps

October 03, 2014

Terror and Wonder: The Gothic Imagination [exhibition]

Get link
Facebook
X
Pinterest
Email
Other Apps

Bath: Georgian dresses, vintage tea rooms and a modern necklace

Get link
Facebook
X
Pinterest
Email
Other Apps

August 30, 2012

Georgian delights: meet Lady Georgianna

Get link
Facebook
X
Pinterest
Email
Other Apps

Older Posts Home

Powered by Blogger

Copyright Miriam McDonald

Mim: This blog is a sort of mini-magazine about things I'm interested in, all with a vintage, alternate reality or retro-futuristic theme. There is no commercial aspect to this blog: no sponsorship, no advertising, no affiliations. However, if you need to contact me, crinolinerobot AT yahoo DOT com is the email to use.

Into the past!

2026 8

2025 6
- October 1
- September 1
- August 1
- June 1
- May 1
- January 1
2024 9
- November 1
- October 1
- September 1
- August 1
- May 1
- March 2
- February 1
- January 1
2023 7
- October 2
- June 2
- April 1
- March 1
- January 1
2022 14
- December 2
- November 1
- October 2
- September 1
- August 1
- July 1
- April 2
- March 2
- January 2
2021 22
- December 2
- November 2
- October 4
- September 1
- August 2
- July 2
- June 1
- May 1
- April 2
- March 2
- February 2
- January 1
2020 54
- December 5
- November 3
- October 2
- September 7
- August 7
- July 5
- June 4
- May 2
- April 6
- March 5
- February 3
- January 5
2019 46
- December 2
- November 3
- October 5
- September 2
- August 2
- July 3
- June 4
- May 4
- April 2
- March 7
- February 5
- January 7
2018 63
- December 1
- November 2
- October 4
- September 4
- August 8
- July 4
- June 6
- May 5
- April 10
- March 7
- February 5
- January 7
2017 86
- December 6
- November 4
- October 9
- September 7
- August 8
- July 9
- June 6
- May 7
- April 7
- March 11
- February 4
- January 8
2016 94
- December 5
- November 7
- October 9
- September 8
- August 8
- July 7
- June 6
- May 12
- April 9
- March 8
- February 8
- January 7
2015 98
- December 8
- November 7
- October 9
- September 8
- August 10
- July 8
- June 9
- May 7
- April 8
- March 10
- February 6
- January 8
2014 106
- December 7
- November 8
- October 13
- September 8
- August 9
- July 8
- June 10
- May 9
- April 10
- March 7
- February 9
- January 8
2013 104
- December 7
- November 8
- October 6
- September 10
- August 8
- July 7
- June 10
- May 10
- April 11
- March 8
- February 9
- January 10
2012 136
- December 8
- November 9
- October 14
- September 10
- August 13
- July 9
- June 11
- May 12
- April 12
- March 13
- February 14
- January 11
2011 160
- December 13
- November 12
- October 14
- September 12
- August 11
- July 13
- June 12
- May 13
- April 14
- March 15
- February 17
- January 14
2010 60

Show more Show less

Labels

#teamcrimplene4
1810s1
1840s1
1890s5
1900s12
1910s22
1920s97
1930s133
1940s105
1950s130

Show more Show less

Report Abuse

Recommended reading

Ephemera

Monday Florals and Tulle - Gearing up for a week that will lead into the BC Day long weekend - definitely something to look forward to! However, I have to get through all this pesky ...
1 day ago
Vintage Pop Fictions

Johnson McCulley's Daughter of the Idol - *Daughter of the Idol* is a 1909 novel by Johnson McCulley, originally serialised in Railroad Man’s Magazine. Steeger Press have reprinted five Johnston M...
1 day ago
Silver Screen Suppers

Alan Ladd’s Anchovy Salad – My Top 100 Movie Star Recipes #87 - This is something I crave on a regular basis so I’m hereby adding it to the top 100. I use fresh anchovies for this salad, usually these, rather than the o...
1 day ago
Strange Company

The Troubles At Euston Square - "Illustrated Police News," June 7, 1879, via Newspapers.com Evil and depravity can have a certain fascination if they are cloaked in a benign or attract...
1 day ago
Polyester Princess

Holiday with a hurdle - It's been exactly a month to the day that we exchanged Dove Cottage for our home away from home in Poperinge on Sunday the 21st of June. However, as my b...
1 week ago
Vintage Vixen

Kalinychta, Lesvos! - Three evenings a week hotel guests could get a free minibus ride into Plomari. As we liked to stay on the beach until late we only used the service once...
1 week ago
Señora Allnut

Holiday and Heatwaves - *Please, notice the plural of 'Heatwaves' as we're having our Number Two, with some days in between when we had only 'normal summer weather' around 30ºC. A...
2 weeks ago
werewolves on the moon

The Girl with the Deep Blue Eyes - By Lawrence Block Doak Miller was a New York cop, but after he took early retirement, he relocated to a steamy Florida town and became a private investigat...
3 weeks ago
Miss Magpie's musings

Of Course I'm Late For March Too - Picking up where I left off (too many weeks ago) March started with the afternoon of the 1st at my Brother and Sister in law’s house, not only to celebr...
1 month ago
SewGoth

The Eye of the Needle: Choosing the Right Needle for Your Project - [image: The Eye of the Needle: Choosing the Right Needle for Your Project] No, this is not a review of the amazing movie Eye of the Needle with the even ...
2 months ago
Double O Section

Amazon Studios to Adapt BLACKCLAW'S DOOMSDAY PLOT as Next 007 Movie - Former Amazon Studios head Jennifer Salke may be out, but evidently some of her ideas live on at the studio. Salke had advocated making 007 “less dangerous...
1 year ago
Eat The Blog

Nervous Wreck - Don't let the blue skies fool you, we are headed into a deep freeze. By the start of the week we'll be -7 F (-22C) with wind chills in the freeze your ...
1 year ago
Vronni's Style Meanderings

My final blog post - Hello and welcome! It seems a long time since I last posted but as you know we went to Ireland for a month and I've been very busy since my return. ...
1 year ago
The Art of Darkness

Seen Online - i have solved shirley jackson’s “the lottery”. they could just not do that — belrose.bsky.social Humans share 70% of our DNA with zebrafish. So when you’re...
1 year ago
Eclectic Ephemera

Shop Makes Modern Jeep Wranglers Look Like Weird 1930s Off-Roaders - source - Wikimedia Commons/ Hurtan-club.de Shop Makes Modern Jeep Wranglers Look Like Weird 1930s Off-Roaders Well, as I sit out in the dappled sunshine gr...
2 years ago
Of Lilies and Remains

Sex Gang Children with Twin Noir, The Exchange, Bristol – 30-11-2023 - I didn’t have time to listen to Twin Noir before the show, but with a Bandcamp profilethat reads “Punk / New Wave / Goth / […]
2 years ago
Style Sixties

Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly Weekender 22 - Last April I flew to Las Vegas to attend Viva Las Vegas, the biggest rockabilly weekender in the world. Held at the Orleans Hotel it's four days of da...
6 years ago
Porcelina's World

Stormy weather - Time flies with a baby. The little chap is 11 weeks old now, and has more than doubled in weight - and cuteness! The social smiles have started, and he h...
6 years ago
The Closet Historian

Falling Behind - What is is about February that makes me just constantly exhausted? Am I supposed to be hibernating during winter or something? These photos are ...
6 years ago
Greedybots

Burmese Mutton Puffs - By: Mrs Robot Ooops, Christmas came and went with no Greedybots. (In case you’re wondering, this year’s trifle was inspired apple crumble, with lightly poa...
6 years ago
Musing Via The Neuro-Mitter

Happy Horror-day! Terror Train (1980) - Here we are, rapidly approaching the end of the year and the end of the challenge with our final movie, *Terror Train *from 1980. Three years after traum...
6 years ago
Norton of Morton

What makes a gentleman? - *In which G.M. Norton considers what is means to be a 'gentleman'* Since 2012, I’ve been on a quest to lead a gentlemanly existence. That year, two majo...
7 years ago
What Kate-Em did next.

Free Pattern - 1940's A Charming Stitch Jumper - This knitwear model has an amazing hair do! And those eyebrows! I think this is such pretty jumper, perfect for under your suit for spring. It is knit i...
7 years ago
Vintage Gal

Finished: 1930s Crochet Sandals - You may remember me mentioning a while ago in my Sewing & Crocheting Plans post that I wanted to crochet a pair of sandals. Or you may have even seen the...
8 years ago
The Folly Bird

Atomic ... - I got this little 1950s 'atomic' table as a birthday gift. It is remarkable dinky as you can see in relation to our telephone. And look, it matches my ...
8 years ago
The Vintage Knitter

A Wealth of Weldon's - I didn't expect to literally come home with an armful of *Weldon's *magazines dating from the 1920s on Thursday. Talk about surprise and impulse purchase!...
8 years ago
A Passion for Vintage Textiles

The hood - London holiday. Staying in a charming, quiet back street of Kensington for a few weeks. The weather has been co-operating, either bright and crisp o...
8 years ago
The Secondhand Years

We move like the sea - There's nothing like a blast of sea air to blow away the cobwebs. And a visit to Tynemouth means great company too. My sister Sabena and her partner Ga...
9 years ago
Get Some Vintage-a-Peel

-

Show 10 Show All