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King Charles III is to end the British monarchy's use of a royal train for the first time since the Victorian era in the 19th ...
King Charles III is to end the British monarchy's use of a royal train for the first time since the Victorian era in the 19th ...
I wanted it to feel like an old cigar-slash-’70s shag pad,” says actor Olivia Cooke with a laugh, recalling the ...
Things didn’t begin for the tower in the salt-laced air of Dorset, but in the busy, grimy heart of mid-19th century London. The city, a behemoth of industry and empire, was grappling with the ...
Nestled in leafy north London, this Hampstead house preserves its historical architectural features while inviting light and blending in contemporary touches. Maresfield Gardens, a refreshed home and ...
The Charles Dickens Victorian village at St. Mark Catholic Church, 2727 W. Tangerine Road, sprawls across eight folding tables. Miniatures of Big Ben, the Tower of London and other British icons ...
News Bare knuckles, hard liquor and Victorian hipsters: how ‘A Thousand Blows’ made 19th century London cool ‘Peaky Blinders’ Steven Knight on recreating 1800s London in brutal style ...
One of history’s oldest mysteries — the true identity of mythologized 19th century serial killer “Jack the Ripper” — may have finally been solved nearly 140 years later.
Amid the rise of vegetarianism in late 19th-century London, George Gissing used meat-free characters to probe themes of poverty, morality and social contradiction.
Between 40% and 50% of children didn’t live past 5 in the US during the 19th century. Popular authors like Charles Dickens documented the common but no less gutting grief of losing a child.
By the mid-19th century, with railways emerging as a dominant mode of transport, the Middlesex and Essex Turnpike Trust opted to discontinue tolls, culminating in the auction of toll houses in 1866.