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With a brand new Superman reboot flying into theaters this weekend, let’s pour one out for Zack Snyder and celebrate his most ...
In the Victorian era, pregnancy was cloaked in secrecy, with fashion used to hide growing bellies beneath corsets, layers, and modest silhouettes.
Green-Wood Cemetery’s 10th annual extravaganza, “A Night at Niblo’s Garden,” transformed one of the cemetery’s most picturesque spots, the shores of Crescent Water, into an immersive theatrical ...
The Victorian Society's annual list exposes the plight facing Victorian and Edwardian buildings.
The Victorian Society has named the 10 sites and buildings most at risk of ruin for 2019. What happened to some of the Victorian and Edwardian architecture listed in previous years?
In a wide-ranging talk with The New York Times, Dolnick talked about Victorian morality, the appeal of the unknown and human smugness. The conversation has been edited for length and clarity.
Fashion designer Nico Gustafson creates intricate Victorian dresses that allow her to escape current society.
Victorian society, with all of its rigid morality, was especially fond of lies, Towne added: “It seems like it wasn’t fashionable to be truthful.
This year marks the 200th anniversary of one of the weirdest and most reality-shifting moments in science. On Feb. 20, 1824, at the annual meeting of the Geological Society in London, the world was… ...
The Victorian Society’s annual top 10 list of buildings and structures in need of rescue was described as ‘terrifying’ by president Griff Rhys Jones.
The Gold Camp Victorian Society began in 1999 by still-active member Kathi Pilcher out of a desire to stroll the streets of Cripple Creek in Victorian-Era clothing to highlight the city’s prime.
By Silvia Pettem (Psych'69) (Lyons Press, 272 pages; 2024) Buy the Book A pioneer woman educator in the male-dominated world of nineteenth-century academia, Mary Rippon was the first female professor ...