They say beauty is pain, but for some Victorian women, beauty was death. During the mid-19th century, many fashionable women ...

British lawmakers voted Tuesday to decriminalize abortion for the pregnant woman – in striking contrast to the crackdown on ...

Say you’re a high society lady in the Victorian-era United States. And say a charming bachelor catches your eye across the dance floor and wants to get to know you.

Though the United States declared independence from the British crown in 1776, British influence, especially in architecture, has continued for hundreds of years. Victorian houses, for example ...

Alabama and North Carolina have joined the list of states battling outbreaks of a Victorian era-disease that has been rocking the US for months. There are now 123 cases of pertussis, also known as ...

Britain's parliament voted on Tuesday to decriminalise abortion in England and Wales to stop a growing number of women from ...

TONYA MOSLEY, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. Steven Knight, creator of the long-running, much-acclaimed British TV series "Peaky Blinders," has a new period drama that's come to the United States.