The Victorian Era was a time of the Industrial Revolution, with authors Charles Dickens and Charles Darwin, the railway and shipping booms, profound scientific discoveries, and the invention of ...

To Austrian-born John Maass, the American Victorian buildings “are perfect symbols of an era which was not given to understatement. They are in complete harmony with the heavy meals, strong ...

The Clarke Historical Museum, at 240 E St. in Eureka, has decorated its Victorian Room for the holidays, complete with a festive tree, toys of the time and more. “The display right now exhibits ...

Jet, a flat-black, opaque gemstone derived from wood that has experienced extreme compression over millions of years, was the haute stone throughout the Victorian era, a time when fashion and ...

The Victorian era is defined by the rule of Queen Victoria I and lasted for 71 years – enough time for house styles to evolve within the period. At the beginning, the builds were largely plain and ...

A time of high unemployment and great hardship among London’s working class led to the 1886 West ... It establishes a Fingerprint Bureau at the tail end of the Victorian era in 1901,” says Read.