And it is true that the Victorians had mummy unwrapping parties. So mummies would be, you know, shipped over from Egypt and ...

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 ...

"Left-handedness is important because more than 10 percent of people have their brains organized in a qualitatively different way to other people," said Ian Christopher McManus of the University ...

But in Victorian England, Christmas was an opportunity to exchange gruesome stories of ghosts, evil spirits, and people gone mad. A Spooky Season According to Sara Cleto, an expert in folklore who ...

CAMBRIDGE — “Black Chronicles II” is simple to describe. It consists of somewhat more than 100 recently discovered, or rediscovered, photographs of people of color in Victorian England. The ...

THESE incredible graphics reveal how your city has changed over the past century. They compare archive snaps of Victorian England with modern photos taken in the exact same spots. [pod_component ...

To try a recipe for Britain's best-known cake, the Victoria Sandwich, click here. There was an elaborate banquet for King William IV's last birthday party at which he famously brought Queen Victoria, ...

The mosque, in the middle of the three houses owned by Quilliam, has fallen into disrepair On a bleak, wet and windy day in Liverpool the old Georgian, white-stoned building which once housed ...