The Days’ Doings. 9th September, 1871

This week, for reasons of late summer heat fatigue compounded with too many HMRC forms and documents, we present only some of the images from this weeks edition of The Days’ Doings. In order of appearance with titles only, the theme is seaside recreation which seems to require a lot of illustrations of young women

The Days’ Doings. December 24, 1870

In London of 1870 the hospitals are full to overflowing during the epidemic due to a lack of vaccination.

The Days’ Doings. December 17 1870

Balloons and Potatoes. Todays story from The Days’ Doings, page 14, column 3 is set against the siege of Paris which has been going for 90 days so far, with approximately 2 million Parisians enduring food shortages and other privations. General Louis Jules Trochu, the governor and  Commander-in-chief of the city’s defenses has so far

The Days’ Doings November 12th 1870

Volume 1. Number 16 This weeks cover is an engraving after a painting called “Interieur Pompeien” by Pierre Olivier Joseph Coomans, a Belgian artist who was living in Naples in the mid 19th century and was inspired by the excavations in Pompeii to paint in what is known as Neo-Pompeian style. This picture may have been celebrated

The Days’ Doings 150 years later

The cover story from The Days’ Doings published on November 5th 1870 tells of the capture and death of Pilone, a “celebrated capo-brigante” who had been “the terror of the country surrounding Mount Vesuvius”.