The culinary customs around Valentine’s Day
Valentine's Day celebrates love and friendship, evolving from ancient customs to a commercialized holiday with rituals like ...
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How Valentine’s Day was transformed by the Industrial Revolution and ‘manufactured intimacy’
In 1866, journalist Andrew Halliday led his readers on a guided tour of one of London’s foremost card manufacturers – to ...
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‘Women weren't supposed to have a job, so they set up salons in their front rooms’: Historian charts Dublin’s changing hairdressing scene
Not allowed to work in commercial hairdressers, Dublin women set up shop in their own front rooms. "They’d have the equipment, the hood dryers, the chairs, the sink,” says Dublin City Council ...
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Long service leave
Most Victorian workers qualify for long service leave if they have worked continuously with one employer for at least 7 years. This applies to work that is: full time part time casual seasonal fixed ...