Victorian Fairy Tales, Edited by Michael Newton, Oxford, 444 pages Tales of magic and wonder and good triumphant: Could there be better reading for the afterglow of Christmas? Many of the storie ...

The Victorians were also fascinated by fairylands, explains editor Michael Newton in his introduction to Victorian Fairy Tales (OUP, £16.99), thus this era saw some of the best fairy tales ever ...

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Tales of magic and wonder and good triumphant: Could there be better reading for the afterglow of Christmas? Many of the stories in Michael Newton’s superb “Victorian Fairy Tales” are also ...

Williamsburg author Deanna Raybourn has just authored "A Treacherous Curse," the latest in her series of novels about Veronica Speedwell, a world traveler and butterfly enthusiast in the Victorian ...

'Tales of Victorian Norfolk', read by Patience Tomlinson, will be broadcast on Radio 4 each afternoon from Monday to Friday at 3.45pm. Join our commenting forum.

Victorian Tales of Terror, a haunted Halloween event, reveals the horrifying side of the Southern Exposition. The theatrical experience is guided by the Society of the Unseen Hand, ...

CARDIFF-BASED rugby historian Gwyn Prescott hopes to follow the book he wrote with Andrew Hignell on ‘Cardiff Sporting Greats’ with one that may be finally titled ‘The impact of Rugby ...

While studying history at University of Texas at San Antonio, Deanna Raybourn noticed that all of the lessons involved “dead, white, European men.” She got to wondering what the women h… ...

Bill Hotson, 78, has been a cattle, sheep and cherry producer in north-east of Victoria all his life. Behind the farmhouse in Chiltern is a separate art studio where the 78-year-old paints landscapes.