If you’ve ever read a great historical novel, watched a movie set in another era, or gazed at paintings from the Grand Masters, you’ve probably experienced the feeling of being transported to another time and place. Perhaps you’ve immersed yourself in a culture from long ago and contemplated what life was like during those times. What did people do for fun? How did they go about the business of daily life? What were their concerns? What were their joys and sorrows?
One way to make history come alive – since the invention of the printing press, at least – is to look through the publications of the time. Magazines, newspapers, and books from an historical period give you a sense of immediacy about the concerns of the day. Reading stories written during those times and seeing old prints and photographs put you in the moment – a moment that’s unfiltered by historians or other modern day commentators.
If you’re an Anglophile, old prints from newspapers, magazines, and books in the Victorian era give you an “up close and personal” look at life during the 1800s. When you look at natural history and botanical...
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