Wearing your pocket watch – Part 2.
As promised, this time out, we will look at options for ladies who wish to carry a pocket watch in a more traditional manner. In Victorian times, you had basically two options, the lady’s long slide chain, or a watch pin. Let’s look at the lady’s long slide first. [...]

This Sunday (25th of May) there is going to be a bit of a ‘perfect storm’ of Steampunk in LA – Abney Park (one of the best known Steampunk bands in existance) will be playing at The Edison bar (possibly the most beautiful Steampunk locale in the world) and are rumoured be accompanied by two [...]

Greetings. My Evil Manservant, Jeebes, has unearthed from the depths of his rather encyclopædic stereoptyicon collection a most startling historical revelation, found here for your ephemeratic perusals at Spirit History.
In summary, it would seem that perhaps the otherwordly manifestations of the séance-enthralled Spiritualists were betimes, shall we venture to say, just a tad bit…well….erm…fraudulent.
Astonishing, [...]

Blood, Backstabs, Bluff are the 3B’s of that wonderful French game. Part-board, part-role playing, part card, London 1888 is really a great social game in which each player is suspected to be Jack the Ripper and has to find out who is the real Whitechapel murderer before the last prostitute is sliced.
Hours of game ahead [...]

Bioshock – by many regarded as one of the best first person shooter games ever made, is a game available for PC and Xbox 360 which was discussed at length at the Steampunk Forum upon release. Since the story is set in an alternative 1960 in an underwater city built in 1946 it’s strictly [...]

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The best way to know of a new invention is to ask the one who made it, So I did and this is what Aaron/Shadarko ) said of his wonderful Phonocrank.
The History of the Phonocrank:
Thanks for asking about the Phonocrank. I had been dressing steam punk for years before I knew there were anyone [...]

Last November I had the great pleasure of attending White Mischief’s barely believable event, From The Earth To the Moon in London.  It was a night of amazingly dressed attendees, stunningly entertaining acts and a gloriously fun filled atmosphere!
And now, I have secured my tickets for the second Steampunk themed event on the 7th of [...]

Airships were once the kings of the skies. High above the Earth, passengers could enjoy a level of comfort that is almost unimaginable to anyone who has ever flown in today’s cramped airliners. They can also be very handy for transporting huge amounts of cargo across vast distances. This has attracted the eye of the [...]

Though Mr Alex C.F. dislikes his work being labeled “steampunk,” his creations are definitely of interest to the steampunk enthusiast, especially when they were supposedly devised during the nineteenth century.
His latest invention is this “Chrono Displacement Device”, i.e.: time machine, which apparently sat unused in the halls of the Temporal Council for nearly half a [...]

Just when you thought your wallet was safe, along comes a company that is building steam tractors again. Its been more than 70 years since these were being manufactured, but once again, there is a builder in the UK producing new steam tractors, to the original specifications, but with modern materials. These new tractors fully [...]