A Victorian mansion with an "extraordinary" history that includes being involved in Britain's atomic research programme has been placed on a list of the county's most endangered buildings. Aldermaston ...

On the screen and on the page, today we are accustomed to seeing fictional representations of women detectives kicking in doors, taking down names and sleuthing out villains. From Olivia Benson ...

(KDKA) — A sleeping woman woke up to find a masked man standing over her bed ... there's a coffee shop and a bakery and big, fancy Victorian houses doesn't mean that this isn't reality ...

A new exhibition spotlights James Tissot, whose paintings and prints reflected women’s ever-evolving roles in Victorian society Brigit Katz - Correspondent Works like Tissot's The Convalescent ...

The Victorian woman’s aunt was diagnosed with the condition ... When she woke up, two nurses were standing at the edge of her bed. Her doctor, with the nurses in tow, told her the surgery ...

Victorian artists often turned to the image of the endangered working woman for modern life subjects. Charles Hunt's painting, A Coffee Stall, Westminster (c.1860, Museum of London) shows a number ...

The Victorian Liberals have overlooked a woman ... asset for the party” and accepted that the party’s standing with women “was an important factor in the party’s defeat”.

Now streaming on Netflix. According to Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, an author and expert in women’s history in the United States, psychiatrists during the Victorian era—or "alienists" as they were ...

THE DRESS DIARY: Secrets From a Victorian Woman’s Wardrobe, by Kate Strasdin The way we dress is a fundamental expression of identity: Garments function as indicators of aesthetic tastes ...

A woman has been left spooked after finding a chilling 'death mask' hidden under her bedroom floorboards. She explained how she lives in a converted Victorian house, but never expected to stumble ...

The idea of femininity in the Victorian era was encapsulated in the idea of the 'woman's mission', but this passive role could not be tolerated for long. Women soon began to seek a more ...