We most often judge the past through films and fiction. But it is important to remember that their creators don’t always show ...

Over its 100-year history in China, the often-maligned hairstyle has gone in and out of fashion amid warfare, gender politics, and cultural shifts.

The practice of binding books in human skin, known as anthropodermic bibliopegy, was not uncommon in the 19th century. Such books were often created as mementos by doctors or as a form of ...

The reluctant empress known as "Sisi" painstakingly crafted her image through portraits and photographs, ensuring she would ...

Under its longest-serving editor, Graydon Carter, Vanity Fair was that rare thing – a New York society magazine that published serious journalism. @PeterPeteryork looks at what Carter got right. Peter ...

Other issues that women faced in the 19th century are well presented in the film. However, the makers could have worked better on the film's second half. The transition between showcasing certain ...

But what books released in the 21st century are a cut above the rest? I've asked Australian women — both ladies who work at Mamamia or just read it — to pick their favourite book from this century. In ...

Perhaps the contrast stems from the timing of their arrivals on the planet: Parker the product of an era in which women had to struggle ... between two early 20th-century phenomena, Parker and ...

It’s really just an incredible effort.” Mendel, a citizen scientist, famously performed a series of experiments in the mid-nineteenth century in which he cross-bred some 28,000 pea plants to ...

A 19th century Victorian Crossley engine discovered in Edinburgh is to go on display. The extremely rare engine is one of only three in existence, and the oldest surviving engine in Europe.

Imagine yourself transported to the bustling streets of Mumbai. The air hangs thick with the cacophony of honking taxis, vendors hawking their wares, and the rhythmic clinking of spoons against ...