Sketch of an opium den in London’s East End. The existence of opium dens in Victorian London’s East End was common knowledge as journalists wrote sensationalized stories, which the public ...

A marijuana plant growing in Denver, Colorado December 31, 2013. Jeffrey Tucker writes that we live in denial about what the war on drugs—alcohol, pot, opium, flakka—is doing to our societies.

A History of the World is a partnership between the BBC and the British Museum that focuses on world history, involving collaborations between teams across the BBC, and schools, museums and ...

We think of opium dens as a distinctly 19th-century phenomenon, but that may not be the case. Following a question to Curious Melbourne, we delve into the city's history to find out whether they ...

As the opium boom transformed Victoria’s colonial goldfields into a ramshackle maze of smoke-filled dens, hatred began to grow for the foreign drug as it lured young women to a life of addiction ...

Besides "reading" Freud's, our clients, or our own family histories and identities via special objects (Ah! My grandmother's rocking chair, so full of warmly rocked memories!), I believe we can ...

ROCK CREEK — The old Victorian mansion at Stricker Ranch isn’t actually a museum — it’s the real thing. ... Pioneer graves and an opium den. Mychel Matthews Jul 23, 2017 ...

A one-bedroom suite inside a revamped Victorian called The Darling Mansion. The history The house was built in 1888 for Dr. Ida Eliza Lynd, the second woman to practice medicine in Canada.

Opium dens were rife in Victoria’s gold rush, luring young women to ruin. ... for it is in them that so many of our Victorian girls are brought to ruin. ...