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Victorian Footnotes, a Small Journal of Big Historical Detours

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An independent journal of nineteenth-century history, especially Staten Island, New York, and the wider Victorian world.

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The journal organizes 11 listed entries under subjects including Places, Cartoons, Books, Brooklyn, Auckland, and Staten Island. Its stated method is archival and trail-based: a paragraph in an old newspaper becomes the starting point for research into people, places, and recurring arguments. The archive spans entries dated 2011 through 2018, with subjects ranging from Oscar Wilde's Brooklyn reception to a Staten Island cricket ground and Joseph Hatch, who is described on the site as having boiled penguins for oil.

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