Crisp fall days, a Victorian oil portrait, an antique wooden desk, shelves of books lit by warm lamplight, old maps, an ironed blazer, a Renaissance engraving of a skull—as disparate as these objects ...

Julia Margaret Cameron (1815–1879) was photography’s first widely recognized artist, making images in a signature soft focus style that remains captivating to this day. Before it was an art, ...

Seeing as the month of Halloween officially started two months ago at Spirit stores nationwide, we thought we’d show you something extremely creepy. Compiled by The Museum of Ridiculously Interesting ...

OS: 17 1/2 x 15 1/2 in. (44.5 x 39.4 cm.), SS: 13 x 11 in. (33 x 27.9 cm.) ...

This room-by-room guide brims with delightful description and discussion of the Victorians and their domestic environments. Flanders (A Circle of Sisters, which was shortlisted for the Guardian First ...

Industry, empire, portraiture, and skin at the Belle Vue Zoo, Manchester -- A skin disorder -- Stuff and nonsense : skin and Victorian animal portraiture -- Touch : reaching through the bars -- Wild ...

As Ironbridge museums get ready for a new era following news The National Trust is to take over with the help of a £9m ...

You can take the artist out of England, but you can’t always take England, or at least an era in the country’s history, out of the artist. Stoke-on-Trent-born, Post Falls-based artist Keith Harrop is ...

Originally published under the title: The Victorian house : domestic life from childbirth to deathbed. London : HarperCollins, 2003. Publisher's description: The Victorian age is much closer to us in ...