Megan Dorsey digitizes original black-and-white photos, stamps and advertisements from the 1800s, coloring in the hands so ...

Jo Harkin’s new book is based on the odyssey of a young boy who became a claimant to the British throne. In his biography “Crumb: A Cartoonist’s Life,” Dan Nadel tries to tell the story of ...

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The “lady detectives” of the stage prepared audiences for the real women who would join police forces and investigative ...

When Lytton Strachey set out to write “Eminent Victorians” in 1918, he sought to enliven the stuffy Victorian conventions of ...

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One doctor said they had seen patients over the past three months with diseases that were common in the Victorian era, such as scabies. Scabies is an itchy rash caused by mites and spread through ...