The site was a prisoner-of-war camp and cholera hospital before it was converted to a workhouse, archaeologists said.

It stated cholera, a scourge of Victorian society, was caused by rancid food, "cold fruits" like cucumbers and melons, and passionate fear or rage. Getty Images Street remedies were sometimes the ...

In June 1832, two events stirred up political conflict in Lower Canada: the Place d'Armes by-election, which turned into a tragedy costing several lives, and the cholera epidemic. At the beginning ...

From crime and punishment to key inventions, Dodger and the gang provide an entertaining and informative introduction to life in Victorian Britain ... history at KS2 in England, Wales and Northern ...

The Surrey cemetery was opened in 1854 when London cemeteries became overcrowded following a cholera epidemic in ... trees as well as a collection of Victorian monuments, many of which are Grade ...

Ice cream from street vendors, known as a ‘penny lick’ in Victorian England ... due to the spread of diseases like cholera, and vendors all over England were threatened with closure.

Bristol-born author Frederick J Hillberg is celebrating the publication of his new historical novel, ‘The Dangerous Journey’.

Letting out a giant burp after a meal in China and Taiwan would be seen as the highest form of compliment, but not so if you ...

Experts have used a cutting-edge computational approach to discover the genetic factors that make the bacteria behind cholera so dangerous ... is funded by Research England, the Global Challenges ...

What Victorian England became was moulded, says Michael Wheeler, in the crucible of 1845. Exploring pivotal correspondence, together with pamphlets, articles and cartoons, the author tells the ...

The wife of Ebonyi State governor, Mrs Mary Maudline Nwifuru, has visited victims of cholera at the General Hospital Complex, Iboko, in Izzi Local Government Area. Addressing the people ...