Charlotte Alington Pye, who was born in Louth, Lincolnshire, in 1830, gained fame under her pen name of Claribel. She sold ...

Curators at Moyse’s Hall Museum (located in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk) just found an anthropodermic book hidden on an office ...

By the mid-19th century, the push for standardization had become increasingly urgent. Scientific discovery was accelerating, global trade was booming and industrial projects were growing in scale ...

Never mind Hawthorne and Thoreau— the women of mid-19th century New England had their own ambitions for writing and life.

They are typically artifacts from within the last century that get misplaced for a few decades. This book in particular was donated by a family with close ties to the surgeon who anatomized Corder ...

Alexey Brodovitch, the transformative art director of Harper’s Bazaar, made one book, “Ballet,” a photographic landmark that ...

A collection of indelible photographs, maps and “intimate guides” from 1807 to 1940 went beyond extolling the virtues of the ...

Kelly at Leah Maguire's school in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Kelly Marshall Most 19th-century schoolmistresses are long forgotten, but Leah Maguire of Pennsylvania—known as “The Madam ...

The 21st century pharmaceutical and biotech sector has come a long way from its roots in 19th century pharmacy. pharmaphorum looks at its evolution over the centuries. The roots of the ...

Shake off the cobwebs and give your brain a workout with this 19th Century test. This exam paper, now owned by the Library of the Royal College of Surgeons, was produced by the UK’s first ...