If we are to believe novelists, England in the 1700s and 1800s featured two kinds of women: those who sat at home stewing about lost suitors, and con artists. It used to be that books featured a whole ...

The attack from all sides was so general, that they were almost instantaneously covered with mud.” These angry scenes took ...

Londoners had to contend with two very different criminal gangs — a group of East End boxers and another of West End shoplifters. But it was the latter’s fists they feared most. The ...

A Victorian property on Tiverton's Grand Western Canal has been removed from a council's disposals list. Plans to sell the canal house, known as The Moorings, was one of 14 being discussed by Devon ...

The World Health Organisation has flagged the disease, once rampant in Victorian Britain, as the "world's leading cause of death from a single infectious agent". Despite England's low TB rates ...

Support for this article was provided by the British Library’s Eccles Institute for the Americas & Oceania Phil Davies ...

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 ...

Scotland Yard’s Victorian history is a captivating tale of law enforcement evolution and forensic science breakthroughs. Simon Read, author of Scotland Yard: A History of the London Police Force ...

Three church properties are currently on the market for sale. They are the former St. Joseph the Worker Church at 1111 S. Cascade St. in New Castle, the former St. Vincent de Paul church at 1 Lucymont ...

Ireland had to come from behind against England to get their bid for a third successive Six Nations title off to a winning 27-22 bonus-point start thanks to a ferocious second half after the ...

Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...