Before you discount the Victorian era for its notoriously prudish etiquette and over-the-top bustle skirts (truly the ultimate bump-its), you'd be wise to read up on all of the cultural traditions ...

But Victoria and Albert weren’t the first royals to put up what is known today as a Christmas tree. George III married Queen ...

An 1848 etching featuring Queen Victoria and Prince Albert decorating an evergreen tree influenced how people decorate for ...

It is hardly news to say that, in his famous opening lines for A Tale of Two Cities – “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times” – Charles Dickens was remarkably prescient about how his ...