From the Boy Who Never Grew Up to the Woman Who Lived with the Dead
Judith Flanders turns her attention on the Victorians' peculiar obsession with dying
19th Century
A collection of 37 Posts
1879: Frederick Douglass
How the most photographed man in America harnessed the portrait as a political tool
The Oxford English Dictionary with Sarah Ogilvie
Sarah Ogilvie on the personalities behind the pages
The World’s Biggest Prison in the Middle of Nowhere
Nick Guyatt explores an 19th century tragedy in Britain's most terrifying prison
Ghost Mountain
William Atkins explores the banishment of the Zulu prince, Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo, to the remote island of St Helena
The Trial of Maximilian I, the 'Last Emperor of Mexico'
Edward Shawcross explores ill-fated reign of Maximilian of Mexico who crossed the Atlantic to assume a faraway throne
The Battle of Fredericksburg (Part 2) – Storming Marye's Heights
After the amphibious assault by the Union army two days prior, both armies, unknowing of the carnage to come, prepared for battle
The Battle of Fredericksburg (Part 1) – Crossing the Rappahannock
Illustrated eyewitness accounts of the Union's amphibious assault of Fredericksburg on Thursday, December 11th, 1862