Life and death have always been conceived as two distinct realities, like in the separation of the world of the living from that of the dead.
During the 19th century, Britain entered the age of industrialization. The new urban middle class filled their homes with riveting Victorian inventions featured in magazine catalogs. In the bedroom…
In the 19th century a growing movement of people were concerned with a toxic killer surrounding their daily lives. Namely, their wallpaper.
It turns out some fads have poisoned thousands, started wars, and enslaved entire nations, all for the sake of some dumbass thing people wanted to ride, wear, or eat.
In the Victorian era, a glass of water, a beautiful dress, or a brightly colored piece of wallpaper could all spell your doom.
Victorians were obsessed with vividly-colored wallpaper, which is on-trend for this year–though arsenic poisoning is never in style
In the 19th century a growing movement of people were concerned with a toxic killer surrounding their daily lives. Namely, their wallpaper.
Four hundred years after they were buried in heart-shaped lead urns, five embalmed human hearts have been discovered in a cemetery in northwestern France.
They say, “Don’t judge a book by its cover,” but in this case you might want to...
It seems that V&A Conservation are in favour at the BBC at the moment. This week, V&A Senior Paper Conservator Susan Catcher is featured on the BBC Four documentary, Fabric of Britain: The Story of...
The remarkably well preserved, fully dressed body of a seventeenth-century noblewoman has been found in […]
