Vintage Voices from 1873

Step back into 1873 — a year when Victorian Britain was obsessed with the strange, the scandalous, and the downright unbelievable.

This week on Chronicle of the Times, we open the newspapers of the age… and what pours out is a world far odder than anything fiction could contrive.

A man attempts to fly over Europe with homemade wings.
A monstrous “sea devil” drags a fishing boat under in the waters off Japan.
Authorities in India present a living wolf boy — whose habits are as unsettling as they are mesmerising.
And amid it all, fashionable ladies destroy their eyebrows in pursuit of beauty, vicars disgrace themselves at funerals, and an American actor of “divine proportions” is exposed — quite literally — as being padded with sawdust.

We’ve also uncovered the biggest headlines Victorians couldn’t stop talking about — from the Thames Torso Mystery to the chilling notoriety of Mary Ann Cotton.

Letters to agony aunts, bizarre recipes, scandals, gossip, and forgotten oddities…
All of it pulled straight from 19th-century pages.

If you love Victorian absurdity, eccentricity, and “did that really happen?” moments — you don’t want to miss this one.

This is Vintage Voices… and these are the stories the Victorians left behind.

Settle in, enjoy the previews…
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From Victorian poisoners and Georgian scandals to folklore, winter mysteries, and our new Patreon-only series Mysterious Britain, this channel offers a taste of the stories waiting in the archive — without spoilers, and without giving everything away.

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