However, in 2022, before Fontaine and his research team were able to draw any conclusions, the manuscript was sold at an auction for the low sum of €300 (£257). The auction catalogue attributed it to ...

Directed by Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp, Sleepy Hollow, is a gothic supernatural movie, based on Washington Irving’s ...

The article presents 19th-century photographic tableaux as early forms of social media – visual tools for connection, status, ...

Who were the ten British prime ministers of Queen Victoria’s reign? What were the highlights of their careers, and what did ...

The first half of the 20th century was a turbulent and transformative period for American and British culture. Women and men began to define themselves in very different ways, and one of the tools ...

In his latest book, Peter Kirkpatrick retrieves from Australian cultural history the compelling figure of the “ wild reciter ”, as a reviewer in the 1920s termed amateur elocutionists.

Brian Maidment, who has died aged 78, was a specialist in the neglected print culture of the late Regency and early Victorian periods; he unearthed downmarket mass-circulation material of all ...

Maidment with early 19th-century periodicals: he was thrilled by ‘the inky blackness of the lettering, shouting display types and perpetually inventive combination of type, image and white page’ ...

Barron Trump is ready to party. The youngest son of President Trump celebrated his 19th birthday Thursday, just four days before his college, New York University, goes on spring break. Barron ...

Receive free articles, highlights from the archive, news, details of prizes, and much more. The Soviet Union might seem the last place that the art duo Gilbert & George would achieve success. Yet as ...

WARNING - This article contains details which some readers may find upsetting. A teenager who murdered three members of his family also planned to carry out one of the biggest massacres of the ...

A teenager who murdered three members of his family also planned to carry out one of the biggest massacres of the 21st Century, a court had heard. Nicholas Prosper used a shotgun to kill his ...