Scientists understood physics of climate change in the 1800s – thanks to a woman named Eunice Foote
(THE CONVERSATION) Long before the current political divide over climate change, and even before the U.S. Civil War (1861-1865), an American scientist named Eunice Foote documented the underlying ...
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What Are Wilkie Collins’ Contributions to Victorian Literature?
Born in 1824 to creative parents, Wilkie Collins had the benefit of a varied education. This included continental travel to ...
McKnight's Long-Term Care News1d
Her name was Martha: Honoring legacies in long-term care
Her name was Martha, and she was one of the few neighbors on the street I didn’t meet. This is something that does haunt me a bit. A missed opportunity to ...
The Nation1d
Here’s What RFK Jr.’s Confirmation Means for Abortion Access
During his confirmation hearings, the HHS secretary nominee said he would fall in line with the Trump administration’s goals.
How Valentine's Day was transformed by the Industrial Revolution and 'manufactured intimacy'
When we think of Valentine's Day, chubby Cupids, hearts and roses generally come to mind, not industrial processes like mass ...
Carrion Crow by Heather Parry review: 'not much flesh on the bones'
The latest in a line of Victoriana ‘queer’ stories leaves Stuart Kelly wondering if it is anything more than an imaginative re-fleshing of a thesis ...
Archaeologists unearth the remains of a Roman basilica on the site of a new London skyscraper
Work to give 21st-century London yet another skyscraper has uncovered traces — in fact chunks — of the city’s origins almost ...
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“Nosferatu” (2024): The Horror of Female Sexuality
One feature that separates Gothic horror from the rest is its sensitivity to aesthetics, haunting stories of love and death ...
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Afro-Victorian Bringing Historical Black Women's Dress into the 21st Century w Cheyney McKnight
February 11, 2025. Mo ...
Commentary: Let the springs flow at Rodman Dam
Silver Springs and the Ocklawaha River can recover their lost beauty if we remove the dam, let the rivers flow and reduce ...
PBS9d
Surprising History of Victorian Era Scotland Yard
Scotland Yard’s Victorian history is a captivating tale of law enforcement evolution and forensic science breakthroughs. Simon Read, author of Scotland Yard: A History of the London Police Force ...
Star Tribune9d
A Victorian con woman schemes for money and love in zesty novel. She’s not the only one
Instead, it feels like he’s acknowledging that women were central to the way Victorian England worked (see, also: Queen Vicky herself), even if it was not always acknowledged that they were ...