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Tizane Navea-Rogers

Archive-dweller and history blogger

Welcome! My name is Tizane. I'm 'House Librarian' at The Independent and London Standard, and a history content creator in my spare time.

Perhaps you’ve drifted here from my Instagram @thepastpalace or TikTok @tiz.history where I share historical curiosities, with a particular fondness for the beautiful, strange and overlooked corners of the past. Elsewhere, I’ve written for The Independent, History UK Magazine and The Historians Magazine - you can check out some of my writing below!

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Were the Victorians really ‘not amused’? Oddity and comedy in late-Victorian cinema

Originally published on thehistoriansmagazine.com Silly facial expressions on show: 'Herbert Campbell as Little Bobby' (1899) Part I: The seedling days of cinema It’s 1899. A man is seated at a table, eating his dinner. It’s an everyday, pedestrian scene except this man is ravenous. He messily devours an unappetising meal. Food is dripping off his contorted face, eyes bulging wide. It’s a gluttonous frenzy as he washes down the feast with a pint of beer, grinning back at the

Dec 5, 20246 min read