The Victorian period was a period of great social change in England, and of an expanding ... By the end of the 1800s it had become quite common for people to have a telephone in their home.

The sweets were replaced by small gifts and paper hats in the late Victorian period, and remain in this form as an essential part of a modern Christmas. Decorating the home at Christmas also ...

When we look at paintings, photographs or illustrations of Victorian London, it’s difficult to appreciate just how smelly the city was during the mid-1800s. But what caused it? The answer is not ...

Archaeologists have discovered 800-year-old trash discarded by medieval residents of York, England ... of English industry in the 1800s. Below the Victorian drainage ditches, researchers ...