Victorian era
Photographing Victorian Corpses Exposes the Beauty of the Human Body
Mia-Jane Harris's portraits of medical specimens challenge our fear of death.
Why Players Always Return to Games About Baker Street and Jack the Ripper
How the Victorian Era endures as the classic setting for mystery and murder.
Check Out These Vivid Wildlife Illustrations From a Victorian Fossil Truther
Philip Henry Gosse believed that God placed fake fossils on Earth, but he was still a renowned and talented naturist and illustrator.
Tom Sayers, the Only Fighter Fans Actually Paid to Stop Fighting
The Victorian-era bare-knuckle prizefighter was so destroyed after a forty round fight that his fans raised enough money for him to retire on, investing it so he couldn't blow it on booze.
'Alas for the Fat One!': How the Victorians Thought Women Should Look
In her new book "Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady's Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners," Therese Oneill details all the ways it sucked to be a woman in the 19th century, from scary-looking birth control devices to impossible standards of body image.
Uncovering the Dead at a Victorian Mummy Unwrapping Party
In the 19th century, upper class society got their kicks from unraveling Egyptian mummies to see what lay beneath. I went to a re-enactment of the creepy practice in London.
How a Victorian Woman's Odd Quest for Fame Foretold Clickbait and 'Law & Order'
In 1898, an elderly widow named Anna Maria Druce walked into St. Paul's Cathedral and asked that her father-in-law's grave be exhumed. She claimed he was never who he said he was—and ignited a media frenzy.
Death in the House of Wax
We spent a Saturday at Brooklyn's Morbid Anatomy Museum, surrounded by syphilitic genitalia, death masks, and "difficult births."
Parents in Britain Are Doping Their Kids With Methadone
The UK still has a few Victorian practices alive, including finishing schools, cholera and most worryingly, doping babies with opiates.
British Parents Are Doping Their Kids with Methadone
In March of this year, a two-year-old British girl died of organ failure after drinking the heroin substitute methadone from a baby mug. The story quickly became national news, shedding light on the terrifying revival of a dangerous Victorian practice.