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 ...

Using Mechanical Turk, the Stanford Literary Lab maps Victorian London’s fear, love, and everything in between. 19th-century British novelists like Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, and William Thackeray ...

The emotional meaning of a place from centuries ago can be difficult to resurrect. The Stanford Literary Lab has plotted quotes from over 700 19th-century authors who mentioned locations in London in ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1848, the British government decided to draw up a precisely measured map of London. Imperial expansion had seen the city ...

The Victorian City: Images and Realities edited by HJ Dyos and Michael Woolf (Routledge, 1973) Victorian Babylon: People, Streets and Images in Nineteenth-Century London by Lynda Nead (Yale University ...