So, Victorians looking for love devised a new way to communicate: They said it with flowers. During the reign of Queen ...

AngieHoffmeister reveals how she created the eerie art for The Folio Society's The Lottery and Other Dark Tales.

Cases of the Victorian illness have soared in just one year, with the UK Health Security Agency warning that it is ...

Sherlock Holmes is one of the most adapted characters in the history of literature, but what of his trusty Dr. Watson?

This course introduces students to the literature and culture of the Victorian period, allowing them to explore distinctively Victorian literary phenomena in prose and verse. The course will also help ...

We offer a range of undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes which combine the highest levels of traditional scholarship with innovative approaches to our core interests in language, ...

A Thousand Blows is set in 1880s Victorian London, and based on real-life characters and events. The series shines a light on the illegal boxing rings that existed in Victorian inner cities by ...

George Brewster, one of the last of the 'climbing boys', died in 1875 after tragically being forced to enter a chimney where he became stuck.

Trump, a break in the middle of a chaotic period of change, for good or ill. Mr. Biden had hoped to make Mr. Trump an asterisk in the American story, soon to be forgotten. Now he will be the one ...

The rest of Cornelia’s antiques and furnishings will be sold at a one-off auction at a date to be confirmed, which will include paintings, period clothes, antique books and a Victorian canopy bath.

Ice cores show Roman-era lead pollution reduced European IQ by 2-3 points, linking ancient mining to cognitive decline. This research underscores the long history of industrial harm to human health.