Amounts of arsenic that were deadly to children and the elderly were easily metabolized by healthy adults, which is one of the reasons it took many people so long to accept that arsenic wallpaper ...

The industry boomed in Victorian England’s Peak District. (courtesy private collection) Grid of wallpaper by Pavy’s Patent Felted Fabric Company Limited, London (1873); James Boswell ...

Victorian Christmas cards could be quite creepy, with their murderous frogs and mobs of torch wielding birds. But one repeating image is especially strange: the dead bird. What’s the deal with that?

The vibrant green pigments that 19th century artist William Morris used in the wallpapers he created for the Victorian bourgeoisie may have been slowly poisoning his well-to-do customers -- and he ...

Historian Hawksley (Queen Victoria’s Mysterious Daughter) delivers an unnerving account of an unexpected killer in the elaborately decorated homes of Victorian England: arsenic-laced wallpaper.