Tag: Victorian

John William Waterhouse’s compelling painting shows a ship passing through a treacherous strait of shadowy blue water. Surrounded by flying creatures known as Sirens, the ship’s crew labour at their oars. In the far distance, sunlight clips the top of the mountain, promising salvation...

From July to October of this year, Bruce Castle Museum — a Tudor fortress rearing incongruously out of the rapidly gentrifying borough of Tottenham — became briefly haunted. The spirits that stalked these ancient walls were not malignant, or even particularly frightening. They were not m...

When most people think of the Victorian Era, they tend to assume everything was squeaky clean. They assume people were all prim and proper, that sobriety was a thing, and that people just died from disease and poisons they used every day. Most of this is a fairly correct assumption, minus the dru...

As a child, one of my favourite places to visit on holiday was Blists Hill Victorian Village in Shropshire, England. I loved the Victorian architecture, the dress, and the way of life. This place presented an opportunity to immerse myself in Victorian culture and experience it all first hand. I v...

This has to be one of the most unusual dollhouse artifacts I have ever seen. You read me right. This rather unusual document is about a girl and her dollhouse. Written on January 1, 1837, it is an indenture— or contract— between Mr. Thomas Massa Alsager, a journalist from Quee...