Judith Flanders Browse All Authors Top 4 quotes by Judith Flanders What was amazing seeing those clips (from the game) was seeing all the stuff that I'd read but obviously never seen because I'm not 140 years old. And thinking, yes, of course, that's what it looks like, stuff that I hadn't thought of. It was stuff the designers had thought of, and they got right. Judith Flanders top-news The names of the pubs stank. The names of the pubs were dreadful, (They) sounded like cheap 1990s wine bars. We really worked on the names of the pubs (from a published list of names from the 1850s). Judith Flanders top-news Victorian racehorse owners frequently named their horses after murderers. That was so astonishing. Can you imagine the equivalent today, with a horse named, say, Boston Strangler, running in the Kentucky Derby? This was a new discovery. The Victorians didn't think it was odd, so no one ever mentioned it particularly. Judith Flanders think you horse today Every society in every period does or doesn't talk about certain topics. We don't discuss money much; it's almost certain that most people don't know how much their colleagues earn. The Victorians, in contrast, were very happy to discuss money. They weren't, however, happy to discuss sex. Judith Flanders colleagues money happy people
