Victorian London was a magical era, with orphans cementing their pickpocketing skills while Jack the Ripper eviscerated prostitutes. Despite this, San Francisco’s own annual Dickens Christmas Fair ...
Most people think about funerals and mourning as infrequently as possible, but Robert Reese, a collector of Victorian funeral artifacts, is not most people. In a program sponsored by the Springfield ...
In 2004, BYU English professor Leslee Thorne-Murphy spearheaded the Victorian Short Fiction Project, a research venture to get her British literature undergrads more involved in exploring the ...
Dan Cruickshank examines how Victorian society confronted the issue of death by piecing together the fate of five seemingly unrelated corpses. His detective work uncovers bodysnatching, overflowing ...
CAPE MAY – Step back in time, have tea with your teddy bear, try your hand at old-fashioned midway carnival games, do a handstand, enjoy a hands-on experience with area sea life and much more, as fun, ...
CLAREMORE, Okla. — The City of Claremore is celebrating Christmas the Victorian way with the 30th anniversary of Dickens on the Boulevard in downtown. "For three decades, our community has come ...
For more than 50 years, American women have cast offconstrictive undergarments, which feminists have long criticized as symbols of repression. But for one Seattle resident, embracing the corset in the ...
A key to understanding how Victorian Britons viewed life is to understand how they confronted death. Historian Dan Cruickshank puts his detective skills to the test in this gripping history ...