Tag: Victorian

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...

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...

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...