Modern urban life presented the Victorian middle classes with many complex social and moral problems. The public sphere of the city was regarded as dangerous and corrupting.It was the location of ...

The Victorian City: Images and Realities edited by HJ Dyos and Michael Woolf (Routledge, 1973) Victorian Babylon: People, Streets and Images in Nineteenth-Century London by Lynda Nead (Yale University ...

Because that really could happen in London this week. It’s all part of the launch of the “world’s first psychological theme park attraction,” due to open at Thorpe Park Resort in 2016. The two ...

She parties like it’s 1899. Oregon’s Adelaide Beeman-White is winding back the clock on haute couture by dressing like she stepped out of a time machine from the late 19th century. Instead of the ...

This room-by-room guide brims with delightful description and discussion of the Victorians and their domestic environments. Flanders (A Circle of Sisters, which was shortlisted for the Guardian First ...

Richard Trenholm was CNET's film and TV editor, covering the big screen, small screen and streaming. A member of the Film Critic's Circle, he's covered technology and culture from London's tech scene ...

The extraordinary story of the close relationship between Queen Victoria and the first Indian member of the royal household is now being told. The platonic relationship between Abdul Karim and the ...

Several years ago, I read the book “Dracula” for the first time, expecting that Bram Stoker’s 19th century fable of blood, lust and the undead would be a quaint echo of Dracula’s many screen ...

The new film starring Judi Dench explores an extraordinary historical relationship Simon Perry is a writer and correspondent at PEOPLE. He has more than 25 years’ experience at PEOPLE covering the ...

Even though HBO’s acclaimed 2018 miniseries Sharp Objects took place in Missouri, scenes of the Crellin family estate were actually shot at a mansion in northern California. Now, the Redwood Valley ...