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Ep. 26: Choke it Down & Chop it Off: Sickbed cooking and short hairstyles


This month we dove headfirst into the wonderful world of short hair, which we both love dearly, and the slightly-more-difficult-to-stomach world of invalid cooking, which only a historian could love. Both of us have long relationships with our short hair, so we explore what rocking a pixie meant in mid-19th century Canada and how that evolved.

Short hair as a choice you make yourself can be powerful, as we both know, but it can also be done to you, as the result of trauma or a loss of agency. Illness is one of those traumas, and one with a deep culinary history, so we try out some of Mrs Beeton's recipes for invalid cooking. Turns out: drinking an egg is almost always going to be disgusting.

What we're obsessed with in history

Steph: All the fascinating research for a historical murder mystery program coming up at the Nanaimo Museum March-August 2019, as well as recent ceremonies honouring Louis Levi Oakes, the last living WWII Mohawk code talker.
Torey: The Christmas by Lamplight program at Black Creek Pioneer Village, and also a source that turned out to only be tangentially related to this month's topic but was too good not to talk about: Dressing and Addressing the Mental Patient: The Uses of Clothing in the Admission, Care and Employment of Residents in English Provincial Mental Hospitals, c. 1860-1960 by Nicole Baur and Joseph Melling, in Textile History.


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Check our facts:

Fashion

Strange Stories of the Sutherland Sisters, from The American Weekly, November 1947
Encyclopedia of Hair: A Cultural History by Victoria Sherrow, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2006
Victorian Hairstyles: A short history, in photos, by Kathleen Harris on whizzpast.com
Why long hair is a burden to Civil War era women (1862): A letter to Louis A Godey, publisher of Godey's Lady's Book

Food

Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management (1861)
Cooking for invalids: wine, brandy, porter and champagne for all by Louise Ni Chríodáin in The Irish Times, August 2018
The history of germ theory by Jemima Hodkinson in BigPicture, January 2015
The germ theory timeline by William C Campbell
Florence Nightingale on History.com, last updated August 2018
Florence Nightingale by Louse Selanders in The Encyclopedia Brittanica

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