San Francisco Victorians were once neglected and reviled. Then acid-fueled color schemes arrived and made them famous.

This episode profiles Amelia Dyer, examining the historical investigation into one of the most notorious serial murder cases ...

Charlie Chaplin was not raised in affluence and comfort, quite the opposite. New book explores the poverty stricken childhood that shaped the star.

In the middle decades of the 19th century, Britain experienced rapid industrial change without suffering revolution or major ...

The 1900s was an architecturally fascinating period, birthing modern design movements, reactionary home building styles, revivals, and everything in between.

Steven Knight's Peaky Blinders series explores an interesting period of UK history, and it is poised to do so again in the ...

A dusty artifact may be the key to solving one of true crime’s oldest mysteries.

Hassan Akram reviews the Collected Short Stories of George Gissing, edited and introduced by Pierre Coustillas.

A teenage girl was taken to hospital after being attacked by a group of youths in what police have described as a “sickening” ...

Three youths have been arrested in connection with an assault on a child in Bristol city centre on Wednesday. Police launched an investigation after the girl, who is in her mid-teens, was attacked in ...