In Victorian England, Ghost Stories Were a Beloved Christmas Tradition A version of this story originally ran in 2021; it has been updated for 2025. Halloween Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol ...
In rapidly industrializing Victorian England, rising crime levels (and public fretting over the “criminal classes”) led to a prison construction boom. Between 1842 and 1877, 90 prisons were built in ...
"Left-handedness is important because more than 10 percent of people have their brains organized in a qualitatively different way to other people," said Ian Christopher McManus of the University ...
What could be more romantic than a Victorian cottage garden, picturesque with poppies, cornflowers, wild roses and drifts of bluebells? For scores of late 19th Century English watercolorists, the ...
When sisters Charlotte and Katie Manye found out they were going to England in 1891, they were overjoyed — "leaping and whirling ... in a dance of triumph" Katie Manye said of their journey. "To ...
CAMBRIDGE — “Black Chronicles II” is simple to describe. It consists of somewhat more than 100 recently discovered, or rediscovered, photographs of people of color in Victorian England. The ...
To try a recipe for Britain's best-known cake, the Victoria Sandwich, click here. There was an elaborate banquet for King William IV's last birthday party at which he famously brought Queen Victoria, ...
Editor’s Note: Robert Shoemaker is a professor of 18th-century British history at the University of Sheffield and Zoe Alker is a lecturer in 19th-century history and digital humanities at the ...
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