A woman has revealed how she walks down the "death stairs" in her 18th-century house, which were originally used by servants. Kim and her husband, Rod, bought Bloomfield Farm in Virginia, a few years ...

IT’S the beloved period drama centred around the lives of Victorian-era servants and the aristocrat overlords they gleefully ...

By the early 2010s, the bodycon era was in full swing, fueling a need for tight, smoothing undergarments that create the ...

We owe many popular Christmas traditions to Victorian England, from carols and decorated trees to gift-giving. These cheerful traditions stand in stark contrast with our recognition of the nightmarish ...

The 19th century, as she says, "was the century of urbanization." Whereas in 1801 "only 20 percent of the population of Great Britain lived in cities," a century later "that figure had risen to nearly ...

Excluded from a male-dominated art world, women artists in early 20th-century London pioneered their own social networks.