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From Regency-era "fan flirting" to online dating, we decipher the timeless looks, signs and gifts that signal secret love.
Sherlock Holmes can be old-school, punk, steampunk, or just a boor with great cheekbones. He’s survived silent films, ...
Is it Victorian-core? 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.
W hat happens when the vintage clothing craze goes mainstream? Antique fashion becomes the next frontier, it seems. Designer Daniel Roseberry incorporated ribbons he found in a Pa ...
Would you take a sip in this former loo? 🚽 This London coffee shop is hiding in a Victorian-era public toilet 'I’ve been turned into a human piñata': Katy Perry breaks silence on space trip ...
Early records of mudlarking date back to the mid-1800s when London’s poorest communities searched the foreshore for bits of metal, rope and coal to make their living.
News Bare knuckles, hard liquor and Victorian hipsters: how ‘A Thousand Blows’ made 19th century London cool ‘Peaky Blinders’ Steven Knight on recreating 1800s London in brutal style ...
This recipe, taken from a popular, London-based periodical that included items of fashion, literature, current events, recipes and domestic advice, is typical of the 19th-century recipe form.
The Victorian era is widely regarded as a golden age of innovation and industry, when humanity made great leaps in technology and thinking. But what was life like for ‘ordinary’ Victorians whose daily ...
That’s the case for Dr. Jex Blake and Dr. Margaret Todd, two lesbian doctors from the 1800s who helped women gain credibility in medicine. Despite all the social limitations that 1800s society placed ...
Jet, a flat-black, opaque gemstone derived from wood that has experienced extreme compression over millions of years, was the haute stone throughout the Victorian era, a time when fashion and ...