If we are to believe novelists, England in the 1700s and 1800s featured two kinds of women: those who sat at home stewing about lost suitors, and con artists. It used to be that books featured a whole ...

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The Victorian Era was a time of the Industrial Revolution, with authors Charles Dickens and Charles Darwin, the railway and ...

Londoners had to contend with two very different criminal gangs — a group of East End boxers and another of West End shoplifters. But it was the latter’s fists they feared most. The ...

The World Health Organisation has flagged the disease, once rampant in Victorian Britain, as the "world's leading cause of death from a single infectious agent". Despite England's low TB rates ...

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Ireland had to come from behind against England to get their bid for a third successive Six Nations title off to a winning 27-22 bonus-point start thanks to a ferocious second half after the ...

England began year with 16-0 whitewash defeat in Women's Ashes, becoming the first side to suffer that result in the history of the multi-format series; home summer features fixtures against West ...

This was a defeat far more damaging than any of the last-gasp anguishes of last year for England. There were no ifs or buts or maybes about this one. Don’t be fooled by the five-point margin of ...