Step back in time with Victorian thaumatrope crafts spotted at the Savannah Children’s Museum Santa Train event — a simple, hands-on activity that blends holiday creativity, history, and a little bit ...

Thomas Worth’s 1872 illustration for the Household Edition of The Old Curiosity Shop highlights her grandfather’s grief at losing Little Nell. (Thomas Worth via George P. Landow/Victorian Web) Modern ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Andrea Kaston Tange, Macalester College (THE CONVERSATION) Modern medicine has enabled ...

There was once a time, writes the historian Therese Oneill, when 'parents were not enslaved to the whims of ultra-confident toddlers.” There was no counting to three, no half-hearted threats to ...

The BBC published an article about Victorian Christmas cards yesterday, tracing their history from the strange to the downright disturbing. In some, children languish in boiling teapots. Dead birds ...

Portsmouth's storybook wonder is consistently unfolding in the Victorian Children's Garden at Strawbery Banke Museum. On a recent visit at daybreak, a black cat figurine was coaxing purple-tipped ...

Modern medicine has enabled citizens of wealthy, industrialized nations to forget that children once routinely died in ...