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As a deliberately secretive spoken language, the precise origins and motivations of Cockney rhyming slang are vague. Was it a crafty ‘cryptolect’…

Margaret E Knight was a prolific female American inventor of the 19th century who created many machines and mechanisms used for a variety of…

The Opium Wars were waged primarily between Britain and the Qing dynasty of China over questions of trade, opium, silver and imperial influence. The…

Mental health treatment has thankfully come a long way over the millennia. Historically, people with mental health conditions were thought to be…

Frequently described as the founder of American landscape architecture, American landscape architect, journalist, social critic and public…

For centuries humankind has explored ‘unknown’ parts of the world, charting lands, marking new towns and cities and learning more about the…

The Victorian age is measured by the life and reign of Queen Victoria, who was born on 24 May 1819 and would oversee a period on unparalleled…

From major operations to minor procedures, today we take surgery for granted. But go back a century or two and you were more likely to die than…

Victorian Britain is famed for championing innovation and invention, fuelled by vast mass production and industrialisation.
These capabilities were…

During the long reign of Queen Victoria between 1837 and 1901, the populations of British towns and cities began bursting at the seams, as people…