In rapidly industrializing Victorian England, rising crime levels (and public fretting over the “criminal classes”) led to a prison construction boom. Between 1842 and 1877, 90 prisons were built in ...

A couple weeks ago, I went to an event called the Fruitcake Redemption. Celebrating its third year at the New York City cooking-themed bookstore, Kitchen Arts & Letters, it beckoned home bakers to ...

"Left-handedness is important because more than 10 percent of people have their brains organized in a qualitatively different way to other people," said Ian Christopher McManus of the University ...

When sisters Charlotte and Katie Manye found out they were going to England in 1891, they were overjoyed — "leaping and whirling ... in a dance of triumph" Katie Manye said of their journey. "To ...

THESE incredible graphics reveal how your city has changed over the past century. They compare archive snaps of Victorian England with modern photos taken in the exact same spots. [pod_component ...

When researcher Chris McManus came across archived footage of people waving at a camera in the Victorian era, he used it to determine the rate of left-handedness in Britain 100 years a go. He says ...

In 1827, a London physician with an interest in caterpillar metamorphosis built small glass boxes to contain the cocoons and emerging butterflies. Peering into the “dirt” in one of the boxes one day, ...

In September 1818, in the British city of Nottingham, a boat hand named Joseph Musson went to work, unaware that he would not see the end of the day. Musson worked on a boat that transported barrels ...

To try a recipe for Britain's best-known cake, the Victoria Sandwich, click here. There was an elaborate banquet for King William IV's last birthday party at which he famously brought Queen Victoria, ...

CAMBRIDGE — “Black Chronicles II” is simple to describe. It consists of somewhat more than 100 recently discovered, or rediscovered, photographs of people of color in Victorian England. The ...