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The Silt Steampunk ‘Storical Shindig is coming up next weekend on Sept. 20, revived from a pre-Covid slumber, where steampunk ...
Unless you are a Victorian scholar, a mini crash-course on British Victorian history, culture and sociology would be helpful in order to really appreciate the new film "Effie Gray." A quick Wikipedia ...
Today we step into the shadowy world of W.T. Stead—a Victorian journalist whose life was as controversial as it was groundbreaking. Hear how he uncovered a sex scandal which shocked the nation, ...
Why the racist study of skulls gripped Victorian Britain - ANALYSIS: The harmful and racist foundations of craniometry have now been discredited, reports Elise Smith, but it had Victorian scientists c ...
The most disadvantaged people in the United Kingdom are no better-off than they were 15 years ago, according to a new report, which finds a “yawning gap between those who can get by and those stuck at ...
The Most Advanced Warship Of The Victorian Era' HMS Warrior was Britain's first iron-hulled, armoured battleship and for a ...
In an effort to discourage alcohol consumption during the late 19th century, British temperance groups produced and circulated "drink maps" showing where people in particular cities could buy booze.
This column continues the conversation, taking up Price's How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain , published in May by Princeton University Press.
The work, painted onto the walls of one of Britain’s most important court buildings, showed a judge attacking a demonstrator ...
London (CNN) — The most disadvantaged people in the United Kingdom are no better-off than they were 15 years ago, according to a new report, which finds a “yawning gap between those who can ...