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(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Andrea Kaston Tange, Macalester College (THE CONVERSATION) Modern medicine has enabled ...

This imposing 1860s Victorian villa is on a former jousting yard within the ancient royal grounds of Eltham Palace, which by the early 14th century had become one of the largest and most-frequented ...

The police are treating the fire at Milltown House, on the former site of Strabane Grammar School in County Tyrone, as deliberate.

Modern medicine has enabled citizens of wealthy, industrialized nations to forget that children once routinely died in shocking numbers. Teaching 19th-century English literature, I regularly encounter ...

Thomas Worth's 1872 illustration for the Household Edition of _The Old Curiosity Shop_ highlights her grandfather's grief at losing Little Nell. Thomas Worth via George P. Landow/Victorian Web Modern ...