Victorian History

If literacy rates are to be measured by one's ability to sign the marriage register (a somewhat dubious premise at best) then between 18...

Phrenology, the pseudo-science based on the belief that by examining the shape of a subject’s head, one can determine various traits of char...

In the 1860s, it was not uncommon to find advertisements on the front page of The Times for a book on beauty by one Madame Rachel. The boo...

Cleopatra's Needle on the Victoria Embankment On the Victoria Embankment in London, passed by millions of pedestrians every year, is an ...

Morisot, The Wet Nurse (1880) In recent years there appears to have been a resurgence in "cross-feeding," the practice of breast f...