The Victorian Era was a time of the Industrial Revolution, with authors Charles Dickens and Charles Darwin, the railway and ...

Death and Gladstone go together like love and marriage. Only sin had a stronger effect on his mind. As with most things Gladstonian, ironies break in, as when he, a rich beneficiary of West Indies ...

1 Zervas built the room around the yellow velvet sofa from Room & Board that pops against the walls, painted in Benjamin ...

The Public and Private Life of Animals (1877) by J. Thomas is a satirical book about animal life from the 19th century. My favorite thing about this book are the incredible illustrations. I can't get ...

One sign that the egg-cost crisis has gotten dire came in the form of a bright-yellow sticker on a laminated breakfast menu: ...

The Victorian author did much to further a distinguished profile for Scotland Yard detectives. “Crime and the plight of the working class are major themes in Dickens’s novels, so he develops a ...

When we look at paintings, photographs or illustrations of Victorian London, it’s difficult to appreciate just how smelly the city was during the mid-1800s. But what caused it? The answer is not ...

For self-taught illustrator Shelley Aldrich, tunnel books inspire a series of vibrant books and folded visual narratives.

The Illustrated Envelopes of Edward Gorey” brings together 50 illustrations that Gorey sent to his friend, Tom Fitzharris, at ...

Bridie is match seller in Victorian London. It’s hard work but if it means making sure her mother and younger brother eat, ...