NineteenTeen

Over the course of doing research for our vocabulary posts, I ran across a fascinating fact about one of the most common casual expressions ...

Oh, those lips, those eyes, that hair! Pick a feature! In the days before photography, how did one memorialize the beauty of your one true...

Today is Queen Victoria’s birthday! One hundred and ninety-two candles would make for a very bright cake, don’t you think? We last celebrate...

I admit it: I am not a very good photographer. I never want to interrupt things to take a picture, and when I do, someone’s head, arm, foo...

Time for a fresh batch of old slang, from that wonderful compendium, The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. Quidnunc : An inquisitive gos...

We focus a great deal on the peerage: lords and ladies among the aristocracy of nineteenth century England. They had the power, they (gene...

Our century was definitely the golden age of the men’s club, a place where gentlemen and the nobility went to hang out with each other , re...