You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. During Queen Victoria's reign in England (1837-1901), the notion that architecture should be visually ...

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Fake health news can feel like an epidemic these days, but it was also rampant during the Victorian era, when bodily ailments were often a matter of life-or death. But unlike the questionable remedies ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One historic pad in London, England, is ready to welcome nobles of the present day. Situated on South Kensington’s impossibly posh ...

Campaigners hope England's last remaining disinfecting station in Clapton can be re-purposed.

Hat Cigar Holder, Godfrey & Nathaniel Levi, 26 London Road, Liverpool, 1851. "For most of the Victorian period top hats were worn by middle-class men," writes Halls. "They became a symbol of urban ...

A Victorian-era device might have jumpstarted the Computer Age more than 100 years before the first personal computers of Bill Gates or Steve Jobs. That century-old dream has inspired a British ...