Infectious diseases killed Victorian children at alarming rates; their novels highlight the fragility of public health today ...

The mid-19th century was a turbulent period in Welsh ... In response many questioned whether three monoglot Anglican barristers from England were the ideal people to investigate anything in ...

"Vivienne Richmond demonstrates the power of clothing in the lives of the working and indigent poor of 19th century England: children, women and men. This is an innovative exploration of clothing ...

This happened in England also, but as Nonconformity was ... became the natural choice of the Welsh Nonconformist voter. From the mid 19th century onwards, Anglican power was progressively dismantled.

Oliver Wendell Holmes coined the term in a novel in 1861, calling Boston's elite families "the Brahmin Caste of New England ... neighborhoods in the mid-nineteenth century were created by ...

"When you come see us on Christmas Eve will you please bring us some little toy ducks and chickens for a present, also a ...

"That was the law. I am not sure how that would go over in today's world." Getty Images The mid 19th Century was a time of political and social protest In Leicester the number of prosecutions for ...

A myth among the Efik people of southern Nigeria is that one of their 19th Century kings was married to Queen Victoria of England ... Efik ethnic group in the mid-19th Century, and controlled ...

Throughout the nineteenth century the relationship between the State and the Established Church of England engaged Parliament, the Church, the courts and – to an increasing degree – the people. During ...

The Dutch city of Deventer transformed Saturday into a pocket of 19th-century England, with 950 people in costumes bringing characters from Charles Dickens' books to life.Oliver Twist, Ebenezer ...