Thomas Whitton was a laborer and shoemaker from Shoreditch, east London. He was just 13 in June 1836 when he was convicted at the Old Bailey for shoplifting printed cotton. His sentence was ...

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 ...

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 ...

A couple weeks ago, I went to an event called the Fruitcake Redemption. Celebrating its third year at the New York City cooking-themed bookstore, Kitchen Arts & Letters, it beckoned home bakers to ...

"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 ...

THESE incredible graphics reveal how your city has changed over the past century. They compare archive snaps of Victorian England with modern photos taken in the exact same spots. [pod_component ...

The old Legat's Ballet School is hidden by thick woodland and "shrouded in mystery". An old Islamic school once suspected of training terrorists and a group of gothic cemetery chapels have been named ...

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THESE incredible graphics reveal how your city has changed over the past century. They compare archive snaps of Victorian England with modern photos taken in the exact same spots. [pod_component ...