Doctors in the UK have reported seeing more patients with scabies and other illnesses linked to poverty. Read more.

Victorian and Edwardian Dress and Customs looks at the rules and requirements that shaped fashionable society on both sides ...

On March 22, 1972, the U.S. Senate passed the Equal Rights Amendment, sending the measure to the states for ratification in order for it to become a part of the U.S. Constitution, the ultimate law ...

Brian Maidment, who has died aged 78, was a specialist in the neglected print culture of the late Regency and early Victorian periods; he unearthed downmarket mass-circulation material of all ...

A new report on the business case for Victoria's Suburban Rail Loop has prompted the federal government to request the state government "come forward and explain". The Infrastructure Australia ...

Before the dodo, the notion of human-caused extinction was unimaginable. However, in the three and a half centuries since the dodo disappeared (the last widely accepted sighting was in 1662), the ...

What was "Chumming?" Apparently, it was a perfectly socially-acceptable way for young Victorian women to "practice" for their future marriages... and by practice, we mean... well, you know.

NEW YORK — Broadway jukebox musicals need conflict, and the evil suits at Capitol Records are a perennial villain for artists who just want to be themselves. In “Buena Vista Social Club ...

1 School of Humanities, Jiangxi University of Chinese Medicine, Nanchang, China 2 School of Economics and Management, Harbin University of Science and Technology, Harbin, China Introduction: ...

Victoria’s Ground Lease Model has been expanded to deliver 1200 more homes across Melbourne’s inner suburbs by 2031. And the social housing component of two major redevelopment sites has been pumped ...

An entire Victorian village display at a theme park in Cornwall has been sold to a historical tourist attraction for an undisclosed fee, auctioneers have confirmed. Flambards theme park in Helston ...