25 Fun Facts You Didn't Know About Valentine's Day (Including How Much the Average Person Spends on the Holiday!)
Valentine's Day has long been celebrated as a day of romance filled with red roses, heart-shaped candies and chocolate boxes.
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Bare knuckles, hard liquor and Victorian hipsters: how ‘A Thousand Blows’ made 19th century London cool
A Thousand Blows centres on Hezekiah Moscow (Malachi Kirby) and Alec Munroe (Francis Lovehall), best friends from Jamaica, who arrive in 1880s London and find themselves thrust into the bare-knuckle ...
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Book Review: ‘The Women’ by Kristin Hannah
The Women” is a historical fiction novel set against the backdrop of the Vietnam War. It follows military nurse Frances “Frankie” McGrath as she leaves her illustrious family on Coronado Island, ...
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Jack the Ripper Case’s Identity Breakthrough After 130 Years: His Crimes and Famous Depictions
The notorious Victorian era serial killer Jack the Ripper's identity may have been discovered after 130 years due to new DNA ...
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The Frozen People by Elly Griffiths: an exciting blend of chills, thrills and satirical humour – book review
When bestselling author Elly Griffiths signed off on a high last year from her long-running and critically acclaimed Ruth ...
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A Victorian con woman schemes for money and love in zesty novel. She’s not the only one
It used to be that books ... characters in “The Queen of Fives” — Quinn, Tor and Lady Kendal — all are women, which feels like a bracing corrective to most literature of the male-dominated ...
As We Await Margaret Qualley in “Victorian Psycho”, Author Virginia Feito Reveals the ‘Sick Delight’ Of the Novel“ ”(Exclusive)
The 'Mrs. March’ author caught up with PEOPLE about her new book, psychopaths and the upcoming A24 film adaptation ...
23 "Outdated" Practices People Really, Really, Really Wish Would Make A Comeback
Recently, I asked members of our BuzzFeed Community to tell me some older traditions they wish would make a comeback. Some of ...
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A Victorian con woman schemes for money and love in zesty novel
If we are to believe novelists, England in the 1700s and 1800s featured two kinds of women: those who sat at home stewing ...
All the King’s Censors
Support for this article was provided by the British Library’s Eccles Institute for the Americas & Oceania Phil Davies ...
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Surprising History of Victorian Era Scotland Yard
Surprisingly, that law stayed on the books until 2016 ... It establishes a Fingerprint Bureau at the tail end of the Victorian era in 1901,” says Read. “Fingerprints are complex.