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.

Can Russian orchestras really play Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue? Can American symphonies really catch the spirit of Viennese waltzes? As music director of the Fort Worth Symphony, the American-trained ...

In the March/April issue, I devoted this space to Unpacking My Library: Writers and Their Books, published by Yale University Press and edited by Leah Price, a scholar at Harvard. This column ...

The work, painted onto the walls of one of Britain’s most important court buildings, showed a judge attacking a demonstrator ...