The Victorian era may be heavily represented in pop culture, through stately period dramas, rollicking novels, and gritty television series, but it's also one of the most misunderstood periods in ...

A traditional Victorian-era technique is an ideal way to heat your home without switching on the heating, and it remains as effective today as it was over a century ago. According to My Home ...

It establishes a Fingerprint Bureau at the tail end of the Victorian era in 1901,” says Read. “Fingerprints are complex. … CID head Edward Henry develops a system for sorting them based on ...

The boy's lungs failed, then his heart stopped. He was diagnosed with whooping cough, a Victorian-era bacterial infection, and died just shy of two months old. While Brady died a decade ago ...

But there’s another era in history that deserves its due as a pitch-perfect setting for romance books: the Victorian era. The contrast between Victorians’ straitlaced cultural norms and the ...

YOU might assume that diseases which reigned during the Victorian era would have been wiped out ... one of those being the bone-deforming disease rickets. Think of Charles Dickens' character ...

Strictly speaking, a Victorian house is a home built during the Victorian era, when Queen Victoria ruled, between 1837 and 1901. But, while Brits tend to refer to those dates rigidly to determine ...

A woman who moved into a converted Victorian home discovered it had more than creaky floorboards. The anonymous homeowner said her husband found what they believe is a death mask, a Victorian-era ...