Victorian age

Julian Fellowes has written an American version of Downton Abbey for HBO, so we’re recapping this first season of The Gilded Age! Starting in 1882, the story promises to be a juicy soap opera…

In the 1800s, the Thames River was thick with human sewage and the streets were covered with horse dung, the removal of which, according to Lee Jackson, presented an "impossible challenge."

Even though I can’t go to Versailles yet.. This section of Victorian Room really entertained me a lot! Hope it will entertain you too…

Wearing widow's weeds and holding photograph of their loved ones, photos show Victorians in mourning as part of a trend that saw them pictured in the throes of their grief.

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Fashion through the 1800s

This is another photograph by the Belgian photographer Leonard Misonne and dates from 1899, it shows the view from Lower Regent Street junction with Waterloo Place looking south across Pall Mall to the Duke of York Column. The Guards Crimean War Memorial is in the centre and the Athenaeum Club is at top right. The building on the left was demolished in 1909 and replaced with Cox's Bank, that same building is now a hotel.

done for Annie Leibovitz Disney ad "year of a Millon Dreams"

A Victorian Lady's Guide to Fashion and Beauty is a historical nonfiction book written by USA Today bestselling author Mimi Matthews.