"Dance Through Time": 1910-1920

A small, old series I rather enjoy (and have covered elsewhere), concludes here with a spotlight on some dances popular during the 1910s... I wouldn't mind learning them to be honest lol... historical dances are always a lot of fun 🙂

Castle Walk

Grizzly Bear

Maxixe

Tango

Hesitation Waltz

"Outrageous" and the Mitford sisters

If you have Brit Box and haven't seen it already, and love the era of Downton Abbey, I highly recommend giving the original series "Outrageous" about the infamous Mitford sisters, it's quite good! You can also check out the episode from History Tea Time about them below for more info:

Trailer 

The Outrageous Mitford Sisters

Royal Blood Podcast ep. 264

I Love the 90s: 1996

30 years since 1996... what are your best memories of this year?

I Love the 90s: 1996

I Love the 90s Part Deux: 1996

Stranger Things season 5 trailer

The time has come for the end of another era: this month brings the final season of Stranger Things, and of course, I'm looking forward to seeing how it all goes down, though it's naturally bittersweet...

Vol. 1

Vol. 2

Finale

History Tea Time on the Roaring 20s

One of my favorite fashion decades (and in celebration of the final chapter of Downton Abbey), let's dive into life in the 1920s! 

The Roaring 1920s

Servants in the Time of Downton Abbey

Bright Young Things of the 1920s

"Wednesday" season two trailer

She's back! Everyone's favorite misanthrope returns for season 2, and naturally, I'm here for it...season 3 has also already been confirmed!

"Downton Abbey" The Final Chapter

After 15 years, 6 seasons, and two feature films, the Crawleys are saying farewell, and tears will be flowing...😥

I Love the 90s: 1995

Can it really have been 30 years?! 😩 What are your memories of 1995? Feel free to share in the comments below!

I Love the 90s: 1995

I Love the 90s Part Deux: 1995

Accuradio: This Is Music, 1995

Iheart Radio: Class of 1995

I Love the 80s-1985

40 years gone by...what are your memories of this year? Feel free to share in the comments below!

I Love the 80s: 1985

I Love the 80s Strikes Back: 1985

Accuradio: This Is Music, 1985

Iheart Radio: Class of 1985

The Titanic

On this day in 1912, the infamous sinking of the RMS Titanic took place...in honor, here's some videos by some favorite channels highlighting the event:

History Tea Time: The Titanic's Final Meal

History Tea Time: Women Of the Titanic

Historidame: First Class Experience Aboard The Titanic

Cruel World, 25

It's almost that time again: Cruel World is back for round 4, with another pretty solid round up... whether you're going in spirit, or in the flesh, enjoy the curated playlist below!

Playlist

Dressing Up: in 1914

Closing up the "Dressing Up" series, Izabela aka, Prior Attire, shows us how ladies dressed in the 1910's...I really hope she does more soon as I absolutely love it!

1914 fashion

Period Corsets Edwardian era

American Duchess Edwardian era shoes

Dressing Up: Edwardian

Izabela, aka Prior Attire, shows us the ins and outs of dressing in the early 1900s (1900-1910):

1903 visiting gown

Period Corsets: Edwardian era

American Duchess: Edwardian era shoes

"Witchcraft for Wayward Girls"

They call them wayward girls. Loose girls. Girls who grew up too fast. And they’re sent to Wellwood House in St. Augustine, Florida, where unwed mothers are hidden by their families to have their babies in secret, to give them up for adoption, and most important of all, to forget any of it ever happened.

Fifteen-year-old Fern arrives at the home in the sweltering summer of 1970, pregnant, terrified and alone. Under the watchful eye of the stern Miss Wellwood, she meets a dozen other girls in the same predicament. There’s Rose, a hippie who insists she’s going to find a way to keep her baby and escape to a commune. And Zinnia, a budding musician who plans to marry her baby’s father. And Holly, a wisp of a girl, barely fourteen, mute and pregnant by no-one-knows-who.

Everything the girls eat, every moment of their waking day, and everything they’re allowed to talk about is strictly controlled by adults who claim they know what’s best for them. Then Fern meets a librarian who gives her an occult book about witchcraft, and power is in the hands of the girls for the first time in their lives. But power can destroy as easily as it creates, and it’s never given freely. There’s always a price to be paid...and it’s usually paid in blood.

For some 1970 vibes, listen to:

Accuradio: This is music: 1970

iHeartRadio: Class of 1970

Interview with the Vampire season 2

It's back! Season 2 of AMC's adaptation of Interview with the Vampire has begun...🩸🦇🧛🏼🧛🏽🧛🏽‍♀️

Season 2 trailer 

Cruel World 2024

It's that time again: Cruel World is back and with it another Spotify playlist to either pump you up or put you in the spirit... I will not be going this time around, but will definitely be there in said spirit!

Playlist

"No One Left To Come Looking For You"

Manhattan’s East Village, 1993. Dive bars, DIY music venues, shady weirdos, and hard drugs are plentiful. Crime is high but rent is low, luring hopeful, creative kids from sleepy suburbs around the country.

One of these is Jack S., a young New Jersey rock musician. Just a few days before his band’s biggest gig, their lead singer goes missing with Jack’s prized bass, presumably to hock it to feed his junk habit. Jack’s search for his buddy uncovers a sinister entanglement of crimes tied to local real estate barons looking to remake New York City—and who might also be connected to the recent death of Jack’s punk rock mentor. Along the way, Jack encounters a cast of colorful characters, including a bewitching, quick-witted scenester who favors dressing in a nurse’s outfit, a monstrous hired killer with a devotion to both figure skating and edged weapons, a deranged if prophetic postwar novelist, and a tough-talking cop who fancies himself a retro-cool icon of the homicide squad but is harboring a surprising secret.

No One Left to Come Looking for You is a page-turning suspense novel that also serves as a love letter to a bygone era of New York City where young artists could still afford to chase their dreams.

Fitzgerald/"Great Gatsby" novels

The novel that started it all

On a sultry August day in 1922, Jay Gatsby is shot dead in his West Egg swimming pool. To the police, it appears to be an open-and-shut case of murder/suicide when the body of George Wilson, a local mechanic, is found in the woods nearby.

Then a diamond hairpin is discovered in the bushes by the pool, and three women fall under suspicion. Each holds a key that can unlock the truth to the mysterious life and death of this enigmatic millionaire. 

Daisy Buchanan once thought she might marry Gatsby—before her family was torn apart by an unspeakable tragedy that sent her into the arms of the philandering Tom Buchanan.

Jordan Baker, Daisy’s best friend, guards a secret that derailed her promising golf career and threatens to ruin her friendship with Daisy as well.

Catherine McCoy, a suffragette, fights for women’s freedom and independence, and especially for her sister, Myrtle Wilson, who’s trapped in a terrible marriage.

Their stories unfold in the years leading up to that fateful summer of 1922, when all three of their lives are on the brink of unraveling. Each woman is pulled deeper into Jay Gatsby’s romantic obsession, with devastating consequences for all of them.

Jillian Cantor revisits the glittering Jazz Age world of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, retelling this timeless American classic from the women’s perspective. Beautiful Little Fools is a quintessential tale of money and power, marriage and friendship, love and desire, and ultimately the murder of a man tormented by the past and driven by a destructive longing that can never be fulfilled.

When beautiful, reckless Southern belle Zelda Sayre meets F. Scott Fitzgerald at a country club dance in 1918, she is seventeen years old and he is a young army lieutenant stationed in Alabama. Before long, the "ungettable" Zelda has fallen for him despite his unsuitability: Scott isn't wealthy or prominent or even a Southerner, and keeps insisting, absurdly, that his writing will bring him both fortune and fame. Her father is deeply unimpressed. But after Scott sells his first novel, This Side of Paradise, to Scribner's, Zelda optimistically boards a train north, to marry him in the vestry of St. Patrick's Cathedral and take the rest as it comes.

What comes, here at the dawn of the Jazz Age, is unimagined attention and success and celebrity that will make Scott and Zelda legends in their own time. Everyone wants to meet the dashing young author of the scandalous novel―and his witty, perhaps even more scandalous wife. Zelda bobs her hair, adopts daring new fashions, and revels in this wild new world. Each place they go becomes a playground: New York City, Long Island, Hollywood, Paris, and the French Riviera―where they join the endless party of the glamorous, sometimes doomed Lost Generation that includes Ernest Hemingway, Sara and Gerald Murphy, and Gertrude Stein.

Everything seems new and possible. Troubles, at first, seem to fade like morning mist. But not even Jay Gatsby's parties go on forever. Who is Zelda, other than the wife of a famous―sometimes infamous―husband? How can she forge her own identity while fighting her demons and Scott's too?

From New York to Paris, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald reigned as king and queen of the Jazz Age, seeming to float on champagne bubbles above the mundane cares of the world. But to those who truly knew them, the endless parties were only a distraction from their inner turmoil, and from a love that united them with a scorching intensity.
When Zelda is committed to a Baltimore psychiatric clinic in 1932, vacillating between lucidity and madness in her struggle to forge an identity separate from her husband, the famous writer, she finds a sympathetic friend in her nurse, Anna Howard. Held captive by her own tragic past, Anna is increasingly drawn into the Fitzgeralds’ tumultuous relationship. As she becomes privy to Zelda’s most intimate confessions, written in a secret memoir meant only for her, Anna begins to wonder which Fitzgerald is the true genius. But in taking ever greater emotional risks to save Zelda, Anna may end up paying a far higher price than she intended...

I Love the 90s: 1994

How can it already be 30 years?!

I Love the 90s

I Love the 90s Part Deux

AccuRadio: This Is Music: 1994

iHeartRadio: Class of 1994

I love the 80s: 1984

Hard to believe it's been 40 years...

I Love the 80s

I Love the 80s Strikes Back

Accuradio: This Is Music, 1984

iHeartRadio: Class of 1984