{"id":5694,"date":"2015-05-21T09:32:52","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T08:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/verityholloway.com\/?p=5694"},"modified":"2015-05-22T11:33:06","modified_gmt":"2015-05-22T10:33:06","slug":"skint-historian-in-pleads-for-your-help-with-prohibitive-copyright-expenses-shocker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/?p=5694","title":{"rendered":"Skint historian in &#8216;pleads for your help with prohibitive copyright expenses&#8217; shocker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/v2t7fxuc\">I&#8217;ve created a GoFundMe campaign.<\/a> Here&#8217;s why.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/verityholloway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/victorian-scrap.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-5696\" src=\"http:\/\/verityholloway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/victorian-scrap.jpg\" alt=\"victorian-scrap\" width=\"561\" height=\"339\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My cousin Thomas Holloway was one of the richest self-made men in Victorian Britain. From a humble Cornish childhood\u00a0in a notorious smugglers&#8217; pub, Thomas built a patent medicine empire known as far away as the pyramids in Giza. He went on to build\u00a0Holloway College in Surrey and the Holloway Sanatorium for the insane, and\u00a0amassed a record breaking public collection of Victorian art.\u00a0Not bad for a man who once languished in debtors\u2019 gaol.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m writing <em>The Mighty Healer<\/em>, a book on Thomas\u2019 life, due for publication by Pen &amp; Sword in 2016. The book looks\u00a0at the shocking quack medicine trade of the nineteenth century, the fight for women\u2019s education, and the treatment of the mentally ill. It charts Thomas&#8217; spats with Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray, the inevitable family squabbles over money, and the great legacy he left Britain.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, none of Thomas\u2019 immense fortune trickled down to me. Buying permission to print pictures is an expensive business, and as I have a\u00a0disabling connective tissue disorder, I don\u2019t currently have a day-job to fund my writing. I need some help. I have sourced a few images royalty free, but three that I can\u2019t do without \u2013 including the cover image \u00ad\u2013 are in an archive and need paying for.\u00a0It would mean a lot to me, and to my future readers, if you could help make <em>The Mighty Healer<\/em> as visually arresting as possible.<\/p>\n<p>There are small rewards to be had, including an acknowledgement in the completed book.<\/p>\n<p><object title=\"Click Here to donate!\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"258\" height=\"338\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"\/\/funds.gofundme.com\/Widgetflex.swf\" \/><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"page=v2t7fxuc&amp;template=2\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><embed allowscriptaccess=\"always\" src=\"\/\/funds.gofundme.com\/Widgetflex.swf\" quality=\"high\" flashvars=\"page=v2t7fxuc&amp;template=2\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"258\" height=\"338\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve created a GoFundMe campaign. Here&#8217;s why. My cousin Thomas Holloway was one of the richest self-made men in Victorian Britain. 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