Nightmare fuel doesn’t come more clean-burning than a porcelain face gazing blankly from the window of a Victorian toyshop (unless it’s Nigel Farage showering on I’m A Celebrity….). That is the creepy ...

Experience created by academics and Minecraft builders gives an insight into what life was like in Victorian London.

Thomas Worth's 1872 illustration for the Household Edition of _The Old Curiosity Shop_ highlights her grandfather's grief at losing Little Nell. Thomas Worth via George P. Landow/Victorian Web Modern ...

Modern medicine has enabled citizens of wealthy, industrialized nations to forget that children once routinely died in shocking numbers. Teaching 19th-century English literature, I regularly encounter ...