A rare 19th-century condom decorated with an erotic etching featuring a nun and three clergymen is going on display at a ...

Ada Lovelace was a pioneer of computing and she loved the new technology of photography too. These pictures are now worth ...

Despite the happy events they were presumably intended to celebrate, nuptial cabinet cards of the 19th century were like ... on a tradition that started in Europe,” the dealer and collector ...

Photo from Tomasz Stachura, Marek Cacaj, Baltictech A 19th-century shipwreck filled with ... could have been intended for members of one of Europe’s royal families. Interestingly, the company ...

The Royal Horticultural Society is asking the public to help identify Victorians pictured on its collection of calling cards. It is the first time the collection of 19th century photographs are ...

Predicting the Past takes us on a discursive journey through the 19th century into the world of Shimmel Zohar, a Jewish immigrant from Eastern Europe who came to America in the 1850s. Already an ...

But in the 19th century demand for Hirudo medicinalis—the European medicinal leech—nearly drove the species to extinction. Its medicinal properties were touted as a cure-all across Europe ...

Electoral corruption was rampant in the young democracies of 19 th-century Europe. To obtain a competitive advantage, politicians would often buy votes and enlist mayors or policemen to mobilize or ...