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Victoria's Dustbin

@VicsDustbin

'What the Victorians Threw Away' investigates the history of rubbish. Based at @UEA_History #waste #recycling #twitterstorian #archaeology #garbology

 Norwich, England
Joined January 2016
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Mystery bottle of liquid found between skeleton's legs in Hull hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hul…
Mystery bottle of liquid found between skeleton's legs in Hull

Mystery bottle of liquid found between skeleton's legs in Hull

Puzzle over sealed blue bottle left in Hull burial plot

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Great new book out by Milly Cockayne!
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Join our very own Dr Emily Cockayne for her online book launch next week - Wednesday 9th December 2020 (4pm)! Join Zoom Meeting us02web.zoom.us/j/8564746240… Meeting ID: 856 4746 2404
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History & Policy@HistoryPolicy30 Jan 2020
NEW PAPER: Bottle reuse and return schemes - voluntary approaches were extensively trialled by the Victorians and we need government intervention to reduce bottle waste, says Tom Licence, on the day the #EnvironmentBill is reintroduced to parliament historyandpolicy.org/policy-…
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Normalising bottle return and reuse: lessons from the Victorians on the limits of voluntary schemes by Tom Licence historyandpolicy.org/index.p… via @HistoryPolicy
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Shaving brushes from Victorian rubbish dump restored by expert in Germany - thanks Rainer! whatthevictoriansthrewaway.c…
Travelling shaving brushes

Travelling shaving brushes

Two-piece, screw-together bone handles from portable shaving brushes, from travellers' wash-kits. Possibly tourist rubbish cleared out of Yarmouth hotels. The brushes have decomposed or had been...

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Poison bottle with leaflet inside! - dug up in Great Yarmouth @JofVictCulture, @greatyarmouthbc whatthevictoriansthrewaway.c…
Leaflet in Poison Bottle

Leaflet in Poison Bottle

Green, hexagonal, 'Not to be Taken' poison bottle, with rolled up leaflet inside, advertising: 'The Don/ Tobacco & Cigar Stores/ 183, Middlegate Street,/ Near Back's Wine Vaults Great Yarmouth/...

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Victorian Studies@VictStudies19 Jun 2019
61.2 is hot off the press! Our latest special issue contains selected papers and responses from the sixteenth annual conference of the North American Victorian Studies Association (@navsa). Read here: jstor.org/stable/10.2979/vic…
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Join the new mudlarkers! theguardian.com/global/2019/…
Tales of the Thames: joining the new mudlarkers

Tales of the Thames: joining the new mudlarkers

The banks of the River Thames are a rich source of fascinating ancient artefacts. Eva Wiseman gets her hands dirty as she discovers what it’s all about

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VicsDustbin finds Sequah quack doctor in Yarmouth! @greatyarmouthbc @WellcomeLibrary @ExploreWellcome @victoriansecret whatthevictoriansthrewaway.c…
Sequah Prairie Flower bottle

Sequah Prairie Flower bottle

The idea of selling a quack remedy based on a Native American cure was the brainchild of William Henry Hartley, the original 'Sequah'. Hartley, who claimed to have come upon the cure in his travels...

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The earliest Wellcome bottle we've found, from 1898! @ExploreWellcome whatthevictoriansthrewaway.c…
Early Burroughs Wellcome bottle

Early Burroughs Wellcome bottle

Clear glass pills bottle for the 'Tabloid' range, embossed with a monogram superimposing the letters B W Co, and the registration number, Rd 12029, dating the registration of the patent to 1884/5....

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Bigger than your Crosse and Blackwell one!😁
Nigel Jeffries (@nigeljeffries) profile pictureNigel Jeffries@nigeljeffries15 Oct 2018
Now that's one hell of a bottle dump @VicsDustbin ...... Courtesy of @inrap 2016 inrap.fr/avant-le-boulevard-…
Actualité | Avant le boulevard périphérique : un dépotoir des années 1927-1930

Actualité | Avant le boulevard périphérique : un dépotoir des années 1927-1930

Les archéologues de l’Inrap ont achevé, à Vénissieux (Rhône), la fouille de l’ancien fossé défensif de Lyon, abandonné et comblé au début du XXe siècle. Transformé en dépotoir, son étude a livré des

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Check out our database for latest items such as this Bloater Paste pot from @greatyarmouthbc from our dig on #SecretLifeofLandfill whatthevictoriansthrewaway.c…
Pot lid for Blanchflower's Yarmouth Bloater Paste

Pot lid for Blanchflower's Yarmouth Bloater Paste

Ceramic white lid with black under-glaze transfer, for Blanchflower's Yarmouth Bloater Paste, showing a herring trawler.

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That's a whole different documentary!
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"The Secret Life of Landfill" - our team mining 1930s landfill for copper! @zoelaughlin
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TONIGHT, 9PM, @BBC 4, "The Secret Life of Landfill" - here's our team at Yarmouth @greatyarmouthbc @UEA_History @BBCLookEast @EDP24
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The best rubbish tv out there!
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Watch us dig Great Yarmouth , Thurs 9pm, BBC 4, 'The Secret Life of Landfill'. terntv.com/our-work/the-secr… @greatyarmouthbc @UEA_History @EDP24 @MRWmagazine
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Ashy rubbish at Great Yarmouth preserved this Victorian paintbrush! whatthevictoriansthrewaway.c…
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