Victorian

In 1858, London faced the repercussions of centuries of reckless waste disposal into the River…

As autumn leaves started to fall in 1888, Victorian London was reeling from a series…

In 1829, amidst London’s polluted air, physician and gardener Nathaniel Ward devised a revolutionary solution—his…

In Europe, the rat-catching profession had humble beginnings, born out of a massive rat problem.…

During the Victorian Era, people pursued a range of unconventional pastimes. In a time when…

They say beauty is pain, but when it comes to the tapeworm diet, things are…

Getting married is an exciting time in someone’s life, and you expect to be with…

In the heart of Victorian London, beneath the Enon Chapel, a chilling secret lay hidden.…

We like to think our governments create legislation to protect us, using it as a…

We tend to think of the Victorians as being a little staid and boring. But…

There are many nicknames for police, generally coined by those they target. Among the most…

When we think of serial killers we think of psychopaths who kill for pleasure, the…

Towards the end of the 19th century, the Whitechapel district in the East End of…

Collecting seems to be a human fascination, and the desire to acquire, maintain, organize and…

The Tichborne case was a sensational legal case that caught the public’s attention during the…