Dr. Bob Nicholson joins WIRED to answer the internet's most intriguing queries about Victorian England. How did people ...

Footage from inside the closed Zachary Merton Community Hospital in Rustington has brought back many memories, particularly ...

Austen died in July 1817. Her 41 years spanned wild economic times. The first income tax arrived in 1799. Trading in slaves ...

After Handel introduced Italian opera to London, Georgians and Victorians went to performances to wear their diamonds and ...

It’s not my opinion but objective fact that The Muppet Christmas Carol is the greatest movie ever made. It just is. And I’m ...

From the archives of London’s V&A Museum, a selection of items that were used by Victorian-era mourners to remember and pa ...

Several sources claim the first retail Christmas tree lot was started in 1851 in New York City, by a Pennsylvania ...

From concrete walls to living edges, the Thames is being reshaped to support fish, wildlife, and a healthier urban river.

Why did Sir Keir Starmer not wear his KCB insignia, given by Elizabeth II, with white tie at Lady Mayor’s Banquet?” asks royal expert Alastair Bruce, after the Prime Minister attended the glitzy ...

Between the 1870s and the 1950s, a gang of working-class women ran an organized shoplifting operation in south London. They were known as the Forty Elephants. They dressed up in fancy furs and ...

London has always been a hub for photography. The very first photo of London was taken in 1839, only a matter of weeks after the French government revealed the secrets of daguerreotype photography in ...