Social media users were amazed by the items discovered in the viral clip, with one saying: "I would love to find these ...

Overland Trail Museum’s History Café took a dark turn this month, just in time for Halloween, with a focus on “Victorian Mourning and Spiritualism.” The Victorian era, which stretched from ...

History of Christmas Christmas as we celebrate it today has its origins in Victorian Britain. It's hard to imagine now, but at the beginning of the 19th century Christmas was hardly celebrated.

Flickr user Homini. In the late ’30s, the Victorian mansion’s haunted reputation was solidified by the creation of the Addams Family, a cast of macabre characters that premiered in a series of ...

Victorian Slum House is an engaging bit of reality TV that mines its drama from being a literal time warp into the seedier side of British history.

City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian London by Judith Walkowitz (Virago Press, 1992) The Sphinx in the City: Urban Life, the Control of Disorder, and Women by ...

The Victorian Internet is a delightful book. John R. Alden, an anthropologist and archaeologist, has long been fascinated by 19th-century social history. You Might Also Like ...