London has always been a hub for photography. The very first photo of London was taken in 1839, only a matter of weeks after the French government revealed the secrets of daguerreotype photography in ...

Most of us, when we think of Victorian London, think of the work of Charles Dickens. Historian Judith Flanders' uses Dickens' words to paint a... In September 1777, Samuel Johnson declared to his ...

This post is in partnership with History Today. The article below was originally published at History Today. Lieutenant-Colonel Nathaniel Newnham-Davis is little known today but, after serving in ...

Fake health news can feel like an epidemic these days, but it was also rampant during the Victorian era, when bodily ailments were often a matter of life-or death. But unlike the questionable remedies ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Union Jack flags and banners at the Royal Arcade on Bond Street, London, England. At a time when fine chocolate was still largely ...

In the 1800s, the Thames River was thick with human sewage and the streets were covered with horse dung, the removal of which, according to Lee... 'Dirty Old London': A History Of The Victorians' ...

This former Victorian water tower in the London borough of Lambeth has been turned into an architecturally impressive single-family home. The transformation of the Grade II-listed structure, built in ...