In rapidly industrializing Victorian England, rising crime levels (and public fretting over the “criminal classes”) led to a prison construction boom. Between 1842 and 1877, 90 prisons were built in ...

"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 ...

When sisters Charlotte and Katie Manye found out they were going to England in 1891, they were overjoyed — "leaping and whirling ... in a dance of triumph" Katie Manye said of their journey. "To ...

In 1827, a London physician with an interest in caterpillar metamorphosis built small glass boxes to contain the cocoons and emerging butterflies. Peering into the “dirt” in one of the boxes one day, ...

THESE incredible graphics reveal how your city has changed over the past century. They compare archive snaps of Victorian England with modern photos taken in the exact same spots. [pod_component ...

CAMBRIDGE — “Black Chronicles II” is simple to describe. It consists of somewhat more than 100 recently discovered, or rediscovered, photographs of people of color in Victorian England. The ...

To try a recipe for Britain's best-known cake, the Victoria Sandwich, click here. There was an elaborate banquet for King William IV's last birthday party at which he famously brought Queen Victoria, ...

And now for something completely different... This is a repost with a difference - it's an edited interview I did with London scientist Chris McManus way back in September 2007. This has a fond place ...

The mosque, in the middle of the three houses owned by Quilliam, has fallen into disrepair On a bleak, wet and windy day in Liverpool the old Georgian, white-stoned building which once housed ...

On a bleak, wet and windy day in Liverpool the old Georgian, white-stoned building which once housed England's first registered mosque looks quite dull. The property on Brougham Terrace is just a few ...