In the intellectual histories of and popular commentaries on science and technology, there is a general tension between two competing conceptions of progress. One considers the past to be a golden age ...
Ever wonder where many of our favorite Christmas traditions come from? The Victorians are to thank for so much of the magic we associate with the season. Their creativity and love for the holidays ...
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The Victorian pumping station that helped save London from disease
Discover how London's Crossness Pumping Station transformed sanitation and became one of Britain's greatest engineering ...
When Lytton Strachey was asked to propose a toast to his Eminent Victorians, he quoted an eminent Victorian biographer: “When I hear men called ‘judicious’ I suspect them; but when I hear them called ...
The Black Victorians. Who were they? And why haven’t we heard more about them? Similar to the legend that was Dido Elizabeth Belle, a biracial aristocrat (unearthed by filmmaker Amma Asante, who ...
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