#skinners

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Ainslie Skinner - The Harrowing - Fawcett - 1982

[criminalwisdom]

THE VICTORIAN UNDERWORLD’S MOST UNUSUAL CRIMES

Crime writers setting their stories in the Victorian era are privileged to have a vast range of sources to consult about the social history, politics and crimes of the time. In Britain, where my Ar…

Nowadays, a thief would be more likely to go for a cellphone or a laptop, but in the 1800s clothes might have been the most valuable things many people possessed. There were street markets given over to selling used garments, often still filthy from their last owners, and the courts were full of people being prosecuted for stealing an overcoat, a pair of boots, or a pair of stockings. Thieves would steal clothes by harvesting them from washing lines (‘snowing’), breaking into a person’s home, or through highway robbery. Gangs would pounce on washerwomen taking clothes to drying grounds and steal their laundry baskets. The most interesting were the ‘skinners’, kindly women who lured well-dressed children into an alley, then proceeded to strip them of their clothes and boots before sending them off in just their underwear.

[skinneyung]

Série Skins

[zooofgod]

I love so much the history of psychology, today I learnt that Skinners (the father of radical behaviourism) tried to develop a pigeons-controlled guided bomb to destroy Germans ships and was the most fucked up thing I could imagine.

[the-real-dakoku]

Eh, just feelin' pretty good in my work clothes. Lol. Been a bit since I've felt confident enough to actually start uploading more because I gained a good bit of weight back.

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Joseph A. Pelletier, A.A. - God Speaks at Garabandal - Assumption - 1970

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Ainslie Skinner - Mind's Eye - Secker & Warburg - 1980