Historians explain why everyone in Victorian portraits was so pale, and the answer involves arsenic, belladonna, and deadly ...

These schools were radical for their time as they countered the rigid Victorian association of women with domestic work.

Arranging the details of this interview and realizing that we’re unable to meet in the flesh, I suggest we conduct it over Skype. This, however, isn’t an option for the interviewee in question. Ruth ...

The 19th century was an absolutely electrifying era, including in a literal sense. Although the phenomenon of electricity had ...

My husband and I study history, specifically the late Victorian era of the 1880s and '90s. Our methods are quite different from those of academics. Everything in our daily life is connected to our ...

The Victorian seaside: a refuge from the stresses of everyday life, or an environment demanding the keeping up of appearances and expensive rituals? Most of our current perceptions of the British, and ...

Victorian Psycho' director Zachary Wigon reveals how he created the period piece with Maika Monroe and its journey to Cannes.

Shirley Chisholm changed the Victorian outfit she usually wears at the museum for her own clothes A living history museum has ...