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Jul 4, 2021, 11 tweets

Today in pulp: what were the top 10 causes of death in Victorian Britain*? Let's see...

(*according to the Illustrated Police News: "The worst newspaper in England!")

At #10: death by funeral! What an a-pall-ing way to go...

At #9: death by immodesty! Oh the dangers of public canoodling...

At #8: death by donkey! Silly old ass...

At #7: death by japery! The killing joke...

At #6: death by literary intent! A novel way to go...

At #5: death by corsetry! What a waist...

At #4: death by armed nunnery! Such bad habits...

At #3: death by reading in bed! You have been warned...

At #2: death by cats! You always suspected this might happen...

And the number one cause of death in Victorian Britain?

Death by impoliteness!

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