The legend goes that a little boy haunts a particular Queen Anne Victorian home in Santa Ana. Volunteers with the Santa Ana ...

A man clad in a mackintosh to outsmart the day’s showers, a top hat covering his bald head, turned up at the door of a townhouse at 103 Lambeth Palace Road. His name was Thomas Neill, he told the ...

Echoing Doctor Who’s own origins as a show that should both educate and entertain, the First Doctor was a traditional Victorian/Edwardian adventurer, simply out to explore the universe. Stern and ...

VICTORIAN DOCTOR (336 pp.)—T. 6. Wilson—Fischer ($3.50). One day in Dublin in 1864, the world caved in on a Victorian doctor. A leading light in the Irish medical profession, he had been accused ...

A new study shows that more than 60% of buildings housing the wealthiest classes also housed unskilled laborers. The post ...

The social history of psychiatry in the Victorian era / Andrew Scull -- Rationales for therapy in British psychiatry, 1780-1835 / William F. Bynum, Jr. -- Phrenology and British alienists, ca.

Work, shopping, church and the pub kept different classes apart far more than ‘residential segregation’ in 1850s Manchester, undermining key assumptions about the Industrial Revolution. Historians ...