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 ...

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 ...

Dr. Bob Nicholson joins WIRED to answer the internet's most intriguing queries about Victorian England. How did people entertain themselves in England in the 1800's? Why was openly showing feelings ...

An almost 200-year-old ivy-covered manor house outside of Norwich, England, that once belonged to a British prime minister and a Rothschild, has come to the market for £2.2 million (US$2.7 million).

Sally Sheldon had received funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council. A vote on ending prosecutions for abortion appears to have been delayed again. MPs have been expecting to vote on this ...