Crisp fall days, a Victorian oil portrait, an antique wooden desk, shelves of books lit by warm lamplight, old maps, an ironed blazer, a Renaissance engraving of a skull—as disparate as these objects ...

The world’s history is incredibly vast, filled with eras, revolutions, cultures, and change. Sometimes, it can feel like ...

Read this post, and we can’t guarantee you’ll ever look at Victorian portraiture the same way again. Nor can we guarantee you’ll be able to sleep tonight. That’s because Chad Wys‘s paintings are, in a ...

This room-by-room guide brims with delightful description and discussion of the Victorians and their domestic environments. Flanders (A Circle of Sisters, which was shortlisted for the Guardian First ...

For more than half a century, Victorian Studies has been devoted to the study of British culture of the Victorian age. It regularly includes interdisciplinary articles on comparative literature, ...

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You can take the artist out of England, but you can’t always take England, or at least an era in the country’s history, out of the artist. Stoke-on-Trent-born, Post Falls-based artist Keith Harrop is ...

Alright readers, let me introduce you to artist Chris Seaman, who is a freelance illustrator in the world of hobby games for over a decade. These includes titles such as Skylanders, Dungeons & Dragons ...

Originally published under the title: The Victorian house : domestic life from childbirth to deathbed. London : HarperCollins, 2003. Publisher's description: The Victorian age is much closer to us in ...