a time when women’s wardrobes were veritable prisons of corsets and crinolines. Popularised by feminist Amelia Jenks Bloomer, who entered the scene in the 1850s wearing trousers that puffed out ...

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Watch 68-year-old Billy Gibbons show off his double time-warp house - with the inside set in the 1950s and the outside an 1850s Wild West town - complete with 10 fridges, a sheriff's office ...

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In the tiny town of St. Andrews, N.B., lies an art history riddle wrapped in a historic building inside a national historic site. At least, that’s what Karen Ludwig has experienced since she ...

“We generally attract a gate of around 12,000. If you look back to the early 1900s it was a good deal more, but that was when agriculture much more prominent and everyone was involved in it ...

This letter was written on September 22, 1850, by Margaret McCarthy to her family and would have served as an emigrant's guide. She was 22 years of age, the daughter of Alexander (Sandy ...

Douglas, B C 2008. Dickens’ characters on the couch: an example of teaching psychiatry using literature. Medical Humanities, Vol. 34, Issue. 2, p. 64. Domínguez-Rué, Emma 2010. Sins of the flesh: ...

Barnum (of circus fame). In the 1850s, the ever-resourceful Barnum owned a "dime museum" in New York City that catered to the growing audience for commercial entertainment. Some of Barnum's most ...

a man of 45 for $1,850, and at woman of 23, with her child of 5, for $3,950. Twenty-five hundred dollars, then, may be taken as the standard price of first-class slaves in the Confederacy ...

as the new sport took hold in the colonies from the late 1850s onwards. The first club was formed in South Australia in 1860 and the first club in Queensland by 1866. From 1877, both the VFA ...