An inspector of historic buildings has declared a Swindon landmark is in a "very poor state" as plans remain to restore it.

Jade Luiz, who documents 19th-century sex work, is training students in the basics of excavation and documentation.

They say beauty is pain, but for some Victorian women, beauty was death. During the mid-19th century, many fashionable women ...

177 pages : 24 cm "Terry Eagleton's book provides a novel account of Ireland's neglected 'national' intellectuals. This extraordinary group, including such figures as Oscar Wilde's father William ...

Watch video interview with 'Mid-Century Modern' and 'Will & Grace' creators David Kohan & Max Mutchnick about new show's Emmy chances, their careers and more.

Until the mid-19th century, writes University of Illinois historian Leslie J. Reagan in her book When Abortion Was a Crime, “What we would now identify as an early induced abortion was not ...

On Monday, a family even stopped by to pose in mid-century fashion for staging photos. “A lot of times when you see homes staged, it’s not personalized, and it was really important for me to ...

A rare 19th-century condom decorated with an erotic etching featuring a nun and three clergymen is going on display at a museum in the Netherlands. Believed to be made from a sheep’s appendix ...

A rare 19th-century condom decorated with an erotic etching featuring a nun and three clergymen is going on display at a museum in the Netherlands.

The condom is one of only a handful of such objects from the 19th century. In 2011, a condom from the same era sold for €12,000 (about $13,650) ...

In the fifteenth century, innovations in oceangoing transport spurred the age of exploration, which was followed by European colonization that shaped today’s national boundaries. In the nineteenth and ...