This information is in a curious scroll known today as the Egyptian Book of the Dead ... be buried with the dead. The development of these spells goes back to the period of the Old Kingdom ...

But the longer she spends at the dreary Ensor House, and the more she gets to know the perversions and predilections of the ...

Victorian writing is placed in its complex relation to the Empire, Europe and America, as well as to Britain's component nations. The final chapters consider how Victorian literature, and the period ...

The sweets were replaced by small gifts and paper hats in the late Victorian period, and remain in this ... not invent the Victorian Christmas, his book A Christmas Carol is credited with helping ...

influential books of the era. In collaboration with the Upshot, we sent a survey to hundreds of literary luminaries, asking them to name the 10 best books published since Jan. 1, 2000. Stephen King ...

According to Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, an author and expert in women’s history in the United States, psychiatrists during the Victorian era—or "alienists ... the Bush, a book by Susanna ...

XIII The Victorian Period. The Year's Work in English Studies ... Drawing together quantitative data on the Victorian book market, insights from the business ledgers of Victorian publishers and close ...

Researchers from The University of Manchester and Manchester Metropolitan University have launched a fascinating new book which uses maps and plans ... experienced periods of boom and bust through the ...

The cost of living crisis and resurgence in Victorian-era diseases are 'interrelated ... Parents should check their child's Red Book now to ensure that children are up to date with the MMR ...

A HUNT has started to find the family of a Worcester woman mentioned in a fascinating Victorian-era book found over 100 miles away. Richard Sheldon has bought an old notebook which references Mrs ...

Even after doing research in Montana, a draft of the book that became “The Heart in Winter” was “dead on the page ... embodying the unease of an era of political and social upheaval.

Health experts have expressed "alarm" at a resurgence in patients being treated for diseases associated with the Victorian era, such as rickets ... to the history books."The link between overall ...