Using Mechanical Turk, the Stanford Literary Lab maps Victorian London’s fear, love, and everything in between. 19th-century British novelists like Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, and William Thackeray ...

Fake health news can feel like an epidemic these days, but it was also rampant during the Victorian era, when bodily ailments were often a matter of life-or death. But unlike the questionable remedies ...

The emotional meaning of a place from centuries ago can be difficult to resurrect. The Stanford Literary Lab has plotted quotes from over 700 19th-century authors who mentioned locations in London in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1848, the British government decided to draw up a precisely measured map of London. Imperial expansion had seen the city ...

London has always been a hub for photography. The very first photo of London was taken in 1839, only a matter of weeks after the French government revealed the secrets of daguerreotype photography in ...

If you've ever wanted to travel back in time to Victorian London, a new Minecraft world could give you the chance. The experience, primarily designed as an educational tool in schools for children ...