Valentine's Day evolved from handmade tokens to mass-produced cards during the Industrial Revolution, creating "manufactured ...
Boarding houses and hostels were a popular style of living way back when. Could these heritage buildings be repurposed to fit modern-day needs?
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If we are to believe novelists, England in the 1700s and 1800s featured two kinds of women: those who sat at home stewing about ... of Sevens,” in which a poor young fortune-teller begins ...
To mark Valentine’s Day here are some love-themed stories from Essex history, some with happy endings, some with bloody ones.
With her new middle-grade novel replete with tales of child trafficking and homelessness, Nabi draws illuminating parallels between Victorian and modern-day London.
But what piqued my interest amongst the jump scares was the actor’s make-up, on-screen—which perfectly embodied the modern-day conception of Victorian-era, gothic beauty—and off-screen ...
confesses Zohra Nabi, speaking to me over video call from her London home. “A weird thing to ... This love of the Victorian era led her to iconic historical fiction like Joan Aiken’s The ...
After waiting over a decade to get in, the Andersons were kicked out of Disneyland’s most exclusive club. They would not go ...
A Coimbatore mill’s women workers stitch garments for H&M, Marks & Spencer, and Decathlon during the day and weave dreams of ...