History Carnival - January 2011

This month's History Carnival has a women's history bias, but it is also heavily seasoned with other topics - from the history of the Ashes to celebrity quacks. Enjoy!

Bloggers behind the scenes at museums and archives

Wellcome Library blog - a day in the life of a historical picture researcher

The Stuff Curator - a new blog by a museum curator

British Pathe blog - footage discovered of 'The Red Woman of Paris' – the scandalous Madame Steinheil

Sporting life
Idle Historian - a little bit about the Ashes

A Welsh wizard
BBC Wales History blog - Elizabethan astrologer and rumoured magician, Dr John Dee

Exploring an ancient tomb
Zenobia Empress of the East - the secret language of Palmyra

Following in Mrs Gaskell's footsteps
Gaskell blog - an interview with Monica Fairview, an author who lives in Elizabeth Gaskell's former home

Student Loans - in 1906
Cat's Meat Shop - find out what the Edwardians thought about higher education

Myth and medicine 
The Quack Doctor- a Victorian Celebrity Quack

The Chirurgeon's Apprentice - syphilis and ‘Syphilophobes’ in Early Modern England

Female monarchs
Philobiblon - the pre-Elizabethan female rulers of England

Victorian pawnbrokers
The Property Historian - property & pawnbrokers in Victorian society

The world of Edgar Allen Poe
World of Poe - a fascinating blog about this curious literary figure

HIstory in the headlines
Yesterday's Papers - American editorial cartoonists in 1900 

Advertising for Love - looking for the perfect wife (in 1860s New York)

Mind your manners
The Artist's Progress - pick up the rudiments of what was considered 'genteel behaviour' in 1737

A Lady's Guide to Etiquette - bringing together 19th century advice for gentlewomen on everything from love to addressing lords

Re-examining a PreRaphaelite scandal
Virtual Victorian - Effie Gray's revenge on John Ruskin

A new history blog from Shire Publishing
Shire Histories - check out the company's new blog written by the lovely Emily Brand of The Artist's Progress blog

Let it snow
Orkney Library 'Get Dusty' - snow in the archives

In Pursuit of History - takes an irreverent look at ice fairs

And to round off with the obligatory historical Christmas bit...
Fragments - 17th century Christmas celebrations