Visitors to Galveston's historic downtown Saturday were transported back to the time of Charles Dickens' Victorian-era England at the annual Dickens on The Strand festival.

In Victorian England, Ghost Stories Were a Beloved Christmas Tradition A version of this story originally ran in 2021; it has been updated for 2025. Halloween Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol ...

Victorian-style kitchen table with cooking tools, eggs, bread, and apples - Buzzard films/Shutterstock The Victorian era of England describes the period of time between 1837 and 1901, or the reign of ...

The saying "The past is a foreign country" comes from the 1950s novel “The Go-Between,” which is set at the tail end of the ...

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Oct. 2—From black-draped cloths over mirrors to an old wooden coffin resting on a stand in the hallway, the mourning period of the Victorian era is now on full display at Merrehope. Back for its ...

Since 2012 or so, photographs of peculiar-looking gravesites enclosed in wrought-iron cages have circulated online with captions declaring that the purpose of the cages was to prevent vampires and ...