"Left-handedness is important because more than 10 percent of people have their brains organized in a qualitatively different way to other people," said Ian Christopher McManus of the University ...

Editor’s Note: Robert Shoemaker is a professor of 18th-century British history at the University of Sheffield and Zoe Alker is a lecturer in 19th-century history and digital humanities at the ...

When sisters Charlotte and Katie Manye found out they were going to England in 1891, they were overjoyed — "leaping and whirling ... in a dance of triumph" Katie Manye said of their journey. "To ...

My copy of The Victorians came in the same post as a clipping from the (London) Daily Telegraph. The article opens, "Revisiting the Victorian era for lessons to apply in the 21st century may seem an ...

In September 1818, in the British city of Nottingham, a boat hand named Joseph Musson went to work, unaware that he would not see the end of the day. Musson worked on a boat that transported barrels ...

In rapidly industrializing Victorian England, rising crime levels (and public fretting over the “criminal classes”) led to a prison construction boom. Between 1842 and 1877, 90 prisons were built in ...

On a bleak, wet and windy day in Liverpool the old Georgian, white-stoned building which once housed England's first registered mosque looks quite dull. The property on Brougham Terrace is just a few ...

Dr. Bob Nicholson joins WIRED to answer the internet's most intriguing queries about Victorian England. How did people entertain themselves in England in the 1800's? Why was openly showing feelings ...