was just one of 58,002 Victorian convicts whose tattoo descriptions we found as we data-mined the judicial archives. At the time, some commentators believed that “persons of bad repute” used ...

And all of the pictures from the Victorian era show the inkings carried out by one of the first ever tattoo artists - Sutherland Macdonald. Sutherland began working professionally as a tattoo ...

Wellcome Collection under CC BY SA-4.0 The 75,688 tattoos cataloged in the Digital Panopticon database of Victorian era convicts depict a dizzying array of subjects. A “habitual criminal ...

From high-class tattoos to the strange things that could kill you, here's some freaky facts about the Victorian era. Rob McElhenney pays tribute to ‘American treasure’ Danny DeVito with ...

(Though some were forcibly tattooed.) Ink liberated Victorian-era women outside the circus as well. Wealthy socialites, for example, got tattoos as a form of rebellion. At the time, social mores ...