One of the UK’s most famous luxury chocolate brands, founded in Victorian London in 1875, can today be found in the charming Royal Arcade, off Old Bond Street .
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 ...
For some Bay Area residents, it's not Christmas until they've taken a stroll through the streets of Victorian London. The Great Dickens Christmas Fair, in its 35th season, is a celebration of all ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...