RTÉ Ireland

The dark, grisly history of body-snatching in Ireland

The 19th century trade in dead bodies saw medical students regularly raiding burial grounds for corpses to dissect ...
CNN

Rare 19th-century condom with erotic etching goes on display at Dutch museum

A rare 19th-century condom decorated with an erotic etching featuring a nun and three clergymen is going on display at a museum in the Netherlands. Believed to be made from a sheep’s appendix, the ...
Smithsonian Magazine

These Stunning 19th-Century Artworks Reveal the Contradictions of the Modern Woman

A new exhibition spotlights James Tissot, whose paintings and prints reflected women’s ever-evolving roles in Victorian society Brigit Katz - Correspondent Works like Tissot's The Convalescent (1872), ...
Forbes

19th-Century ‘Afric-American Picture Gallery’ Brought To Life At Winterthur Museum ...

A story. An imagined future. An “intellectual funhouse” in the words of Jonathan Michael Square. Square guest curated an exhibition at the Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library in Winterthur, DE ...
Artnet

A 19th-Century Condom With a Bawdy Print Makes Its Museum Debut

In November last year, two print curators from the Rijksmuseum were perusing the showrooms of an auction house in Haarlem, northwest Netherlands, when something unexpected caught their eye: a ...
CNN

19th century shipwreck discovered off Australian coast highlights once common maritime ...

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. (CNN) — Beneath ...