LET us not mince words: this scepter’d isle, once vaunted as the workshop of the world, has been reduced to a pitiful mendicant, outstripped ...

On May 16, 1853, the Alexandria Gazette published an advertisement for “H. Weirman’s celebrated Ladies’, Misses, & Children’s ...

PALESTINIANS in Gaza and the West Bank have been forced to live a dreadful life amid the intermittent horrors of bombings and ...

By insisting public art should uphold biblical “moral standards” rather than ... nationalists to advocate for state censorship and Victorian-era prudery. Efforts to revive the Comstock Act ...

The film explores the Victorian era in England during Queen Victoria's reign (1837-1901) and its reflection in the works of Charles Dickens. It highlights the contrasts of the time, including wealth ...

Almost every Victorian picture has a pretty girl in it, usually with her clothes on. But the nude never completely died out, even in the mid-Victorian moral ice age of the 1850s. By the end of the ...

It's time for the "Victorian-era punishment" of smacking children to be banned in England as it "undoubtedly harms children's health", according to a group representing leading doctors. The Royal ...

For them, accommodating Russia would be a moral failure. But for […] We are a global leader in geopolitical forecasting. We deliver cutting edge analysis and intelligence so you can stay ahead of the ...

Police are to get new powers to enter properties without a warrant if tracking apps such as ‘Find My Phone’ show stolen gadgets are inside. Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said the move was aimed ...

The €26 million redevelopment of Dublin’s Victorian fruit and vegetable market is finally getting under way, six years after it was closed by Dublin City Council. Construction and conservation ...

Sex was also a theme but Victorian clerks often obscured the level of obscenity ... In their images of vice and pleasure some convicts may have signalled an alternative morality but for most, tattoos ...