Thomas Worth’s 1872 illustration for the Household Edition of The Old Curiosity Shop highlights her grandfather’s grief at losing Little Nell. (Thomas Worth via George P. Landow/Victorian Web) Modern ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Andrea Kaston Tange, Macalester College (THE CONVERSATION) Modern medicine has enabled ...

Victorian children aged 14 and above who commit violent crimes to be tried and sentenced as adults under new reforms.

The Victorian Commissioner for Aboriginal Children and Young People, Meena Singh, has announced she is resigning from her ...

A Victorian Christmas is coming to Hull. The celebration, featuring a Victorian pantomime and a traditional fairground ...

The Great Dickens Christmas Fair and Victorian Holiday Party, a Bay Area tradition for 55 years, runs weekends through Dec.

THE publication of “Little Wide-Awake: An Anthology from Victorian Children’s Books and Periodicals,” compiled by Leonard de Vries (World), is an event of interest and importance to historians of ...

The Victorian government has announced it will send social workers to 20 of the state's schools to try to reduce violent ...

The Allan government will mirror Queensland with harsher jail sentences for children, but experts say the new legislation ...

Christmas past meets the present in a special holiday display at the Clarke Historical Museum, 240 E St. in Eureka. “It’s always fun to set up Christmas decorations. I enjoy doing it,” said Clarke ...

Modern medicine has enabled citizens of wealthy, industrialized nations to forget that children once routinely died in shocking numbers. Teaching 19th-century English literature, I regularly encounter ...