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Thomas Whitton was a laborer and shoemaker from Shoreditch, east London. He was just 13 in June 1836 when he was convicted at the Old Bailey for shoplifting printed cotton. His sentence was ...

Tuesdays, Aug. 13 - Sept. 17, 2024 at 9 p.m. on KPBS 2 / Stream the series now with KPBS Passport! In WALKING VICTORIAN ENGLAND, historian Dr. Onyeka Nubia examines Victorian Britain from the ...

IT was inevitable that Miss Sitwell — though there never were such Georgians as the Sitwells — should eventually find herself on the threshold of the Victorian era. A biography of the Queen falls into ...

Queen Victoria may not have been much of a Victorian after all. Certainly not as she is played by Jenna Coleman in the sumptuous series “Victoria,” beginning on “Masterpiece” on Sunday. “People ...

Editor’s Note: Robert Shoemaker is a professor of 18th-century British history at the University of Sheffield and Zoe Alker is a lecturer in 19th-century history and digital humanities at the ...

"Left-handedness is important because more than 10 percent of people have their brains organized in a qualitatively different way to other people," said Ian Christopher McManus of the University ...

The palatial Victoria & Albert Museum, named in honor of the 19th-century royal couple, is known more commonly in its shortened form – the V&A. Located in South Kensington, this free museum is a ...