Today, the ritual continues, with locket necklaces serve as keepsakes for photos, charms, love letters, and secrets known ...

Once the domain of Victorian street urchins, the art of mudlarking has gone mainstream. Lucy Kenningham investigates ...

He could see her as she unclasped from her neck the locket which she fastened about his own. It was an old fashioned golden locket bearing miniatures of her father and mother with their names and ...

As a retrospective of the jeweler Terry Castro’s work opens at Carpenters Workshop Gallery, his son, Sir King shares plans ...

For every “gyatt” today (originally a variation of “god damn”, now referring to a curvy woman) there was a “dog my cats” or “od’s fish” in the Victorian era (both also meant ...

Jet, a flat-black, opaque gemstone derived from wood that has experienced extreme compression over millions of years, was the haute stone throughout the Victorian era, a time when fashion and ...

You might receive a locket or ring with a triskele after someone ... Photography was just becoming commercially available in ...

Lockets date back centuries but were particularly popular in Victorian times when it became known the Queen was fond of them. Prince Albert gave her the gift of a bracelet with eight lockets ...

“Now, you can go down The Lanes to buy a Victorian locket or an antique Clarice Cliff tea set. In the 90s, you’d go there to buy a 1950s gown with a bloodstain on the front, or a gun. My ...

Topics include: life as a Victorian chimney-sweep, Victorian servants, Victorian railways, famous Victorians, Victorian inventions, Queen Victoria, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Victorian children.

The Victorian government has wished Scotland well after it stepped in to host the 2026 Commonwealth Games, following Victoria's withdrawal from the event. The-then Andrews government scrapped the ...