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Kristen MacGregor
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Storyteller. Historical mysteries, romances, and always a happily ever after. She/Her.
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I don’t know who needs to hear this right now, but crying is okay and normal and you’re allowed to do it.
January 10, 2026 at 9:45 PM
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'Portland Road Underground Station' (from 'London Town', 1883) by Ellen Elizabeth Houghton
January 9, 2026 at 6:23 PM
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How to be glamorous in the cold weather! "The Lady of the Snows" by George H. Boughton (1834-1905), from the Walker Gallery. More at victorianweb.org/painting/bou... #paintings #weather #fashion
A beautiful young woman agaist a snowy background, wearing sumptous attire, with elaborate brimmed and beribboned hat and fashionable floral and fur-trimmed matching cape and muff.
January 9, 2026 at 10:39 PM
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What a dreadful year it has been.
January 9, 2026 at 5:32 PM
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Can't help but feel like this is one of the reasons why the Constitution says If a dude in office does an insurrection, don't let that motherfucker hold office again

Bc clearly they cannot be trusted with power & control over the levers of government, & they do not care about democratic constraints
January 3, 2026 at 2:31 PM
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Danish artist Peder Severin Krøyer depicts a group of artists ~ members of the Skagen Painters ~ enthusiastically celebrating in the sun with champagne. The painting was inspired by a party in fellow-artist Michael Ancher’s garden (Hip, Hip, Hurrah! 1888) Gothenburg Museum of Art)
men standi round table toasting each other, seated women look on, set in verdant garden with dappled sunshine
March 17, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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Opening in early summer 2025, our #CM150 exhibition at the Police Museum in Sidcup will be only the second time this century that a substantial number of Crime Museum cases have been on public display, after #CrimeMuseumUncovered at @londonmuseum.bsky.social ten years ago. #OTD #Austen250
Watercolour, pen and ink notice for the Crime Museum in elaborate calligraphy, a different font and colour for each line. Overall, it reads 'Museum is open on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays between the hours of 2 and 4 p.m. only, upon presentation of a proper order 8th May 1894 By order of the Commissioner', a post then held by the one-armed Colonel Sir Edward Bradford, previously of the 14th Light Dragoons, Mayne's Irregular Cavalry (formed by a distant relation of one of the first Met Commissioners) and the Indian Civil Service and husband to Jane Austen's great-great niece.
April 12, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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'Oxford Circus Underground Station' (1905) by Maxwell Ashby Armfield

(Government Art Collection)
January 10, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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Cocoa in plentiful supply at the Bon Marché dining rooms in Lea Bridge Road, early 1900s. #HotChocolateDay 📷 VHM photo collection, available in our Searchroom.
Photograph of the Bon Marché dining rooms in Lea Bridge Road in early 1900s. Staff are posed in the central corner doorway, with several small boys standing nearby, on left and right. Shop signage includes Teas and Breakfasts, plus an advertisement for Fry's Cocoa on the door. Crop of photograph of the Bon Marché dining rooms in Lea Bridge Road in early 1900s, to show staff posed by central doorway, in front of advertisement for Fry's Cocoa.
January 31, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Wool wrapper resist-dyed & printed in paisley & phoenix motif with shirt collar, center front partial opening, fitted waist, 3/4 length puff sleeves & pleated slightly trained skirt, most likely Mulhouse.
—Augusta Auctions

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Full-length dress from neck to floor with phoenix motif and black buttons from chest to floor. Small black collar.
November 30, 2024 at 2:51 PM
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The Duke of Wellington statue on Queen Street in Glasgow this morning, with a new take on the traditional road cone by The Rebel Bear. What you can't see from this shot is that the pigeon is doing what pigeons usually do on statues!

#glasgow #glasgowtoday #streetart #glasgowstreetart
November 17, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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These dapper gents are not in fact #ArchiveFashion but Victorian Met CID officers disguised to work among the upper classes, perhaps even on some of the cases in the Crime Museum, which celebrates its 150th birthday today! #OTD #Archive30 #CM150 #FashionGoalz #HappyBirthday
Black and white studio photograph of five CID officers in top hats, bowlers and other hats, frock coats, three-piece suits and ties.
April 12, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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Good morning! This week's theme is St Paul's Cathedral.
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'St Paul's and Ludgate Hill' (c.1887) by William Logsdail

(Private collection)
April 14, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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What a dreadful year it has been.
January 1, 2026 at 7:26 PM
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‘It was not in his nature to do anything by halves:’ Mary Booth on her husband’s work. No lie detected. I run a course that demystifies Charles Booth’s massive Life & Labour survey and the accompanying Poverty Map.
Starts Tue 13 Jan at the Mary Ward Centre, nr Stratford High St DLR short.do/wLa3Vc
December 29, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Thorpe Coombe Maternity Hospital, Forest Road, Walthamstow c.1960s. Dame Louise McIlroy (1878-1968) was consultant here from 1934. Surgeon at RAMC hospital, Constantinople 1916. Obstetrician & gynaecologist, & UK's first woman medical professor. 📷 ©Vestry House Museum. Portrait is.gd/blQP5N #WHM2025
Thorpe Coombe Maternity Hospital, Forest Road, Walthamstow c.1960s. Photo ©Vestry House Museum. Portrait photograph of Dr Louise McIlroy c.1916. Source: Creative Commons https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Louise_McIlroy_during_WWI.jpg
March 14, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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Beautiful 2-piece magenta silk patterned in chrysanthemum motif with faux vest bodice front over silk satin long sleeve, knife-pleated center front panel & removable inset pleated & ruched yoke, pleated skirt with box pleated self-ruffle to hem.
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Rich magenta dress with large white chrysanthemum pattern. Sleeves are slightly puffed at upper arm and tight in the forearm. Can be worn with or without an upper chest and front cover.
December 1, 2024 at 10:13 PM
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Art nouveau Lalique pocket watch and chain (gold and enamel)
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pocket watch closed, floral enamel and gold lid pocket watch half open, disclosing numeric watchface
August 19, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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The different buildings that have been home to Scotland Yard - Whitehall Place 1829-1890, Norman Shaw buildings on Victoria Embankment 1890-1967, Broadway 1967-2017, and finally in 2017 a return to Victoria Embankment with the Curtis Green Building. #ArchiveBuildings #Archive30
Black and white illustration showing an open road with buildings to the back and side. Building in the back has an open archway. Building to the side has a large clock to the top. Black and white photograph of a four storey brick building with gable to top and round tower like structure to one side. Colour photograph of a tall tower block with the New Scotland Yard revolving sign outside. Colour photograph of a building with white facade, set back on the road, with a single storey glass entrance and a concrete wall in front.
April 28, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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Are you lucky enough to have air-conditioning in these hot days? #Didyouknow that St George's Hall in #Liverpool was the world's first air-conditioned building? victorianweb.org/art/architec...
The Neo-Classical St George's Hall looking very grand and impressive on its plateau, from a distance Plaque stating its importance, and naming the engineer, David Boswell Reid
July 25, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Wire family with cats! Photograph by Alfred Wire (1839-1914), headmaster of Harrow Green Boys' School & keen local photographer. The family lived at 168 Birkbeck Road, Leytonstone. Wire's photographs, lecture notes & scrapbooks are available in our Searchroom. 📷 VHM photo collection. #NationalPetDay
Photograph of two members of the Wire family of Leytonstone, with their cats. Two women are seated at a small table. The woman on the left is looking at the cat sitting on the table. The woman on the right is looking down and smiling at the cat sitting on her lap. Photograph by Alfred Wire (1839-1914), from VHM photo collection.
April 11, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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2-piece cream twill wool flannel winter day dress, hand-embroidered with satin stitch floral motifs in wool & silk to convertible collar, center front & center back of fitted bodice, cuffs, front of integrated apron overskirt & in vertical bands at skirt front.
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Beautiful floral-themed cream dress. The floral theme is hand-embroidered and includes mainly red and off-white flowers but also smaller purple flowers. There are also green vines and leaves. The bodice is fitted with a pointed drop waist, the skirt is not overly full.
December 7, 2024 at 4:43 PM
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“'That’s what appeals to me about romance as an author,' says McQuiston. 'I want to be in it with the reader because it’s a safe place to be my full-hearted, corny, earnest self without judgment. It’s hard to find places like that in this world.'"

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Enemies to Lovers: On the Romance Genre’s Mainstream Come-Up
Lately, I find myself bringing up romance on the dance floor. Do you know Talia Hibbert? A four-bedroom in Bushwick: picture me shouting over the music, my sweaty upper lip, hips swaying to a thump…
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December 31, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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'St Paul's, London' (1884) by John O'Connor

(Private collection)
April 16, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Let's start out the week with this 1898 two-piece houndstooth windowpane walking suit.

I could see easily this outfit being altered to make a very nice business suit today!

The color is lovely, and the mother of pearl-inlaid buttons add that extra little something.

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The ladies suit is in gray, taupe, and brown houndstooth windowpane on cream ground. It has a double-breasted bodice with composition buttons inlaid with mother of pearl. Lavender cotton sateen bodice lining and skirt hem facing with velvet hem saver.
January 20, 2025 at 8:58 PM