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Topic: Victorian era

Illustration of two Victorian gentlemen dancing a jig (Whitemay/Getty Stock Images)

30 jolly puns from the Victorian Era

Keith Johnston - Mental Floss
Kate Phillips as Eliza and Stuart Martin as William Wellington in "Miss Scarlet & the Duke" (PBS )

"Miss Scarlet" & Victorian constraints

Hanh Nguyen
Andrew Gower in "Miss Scarlet & the Duke" (Masterpiece/PBS)

Miss Scarlet and the Victorian outsiders

Hanh Nguyen
A model wears a creation for Hermes' Fall-Winter 2017/2018 ready-to-wear fashion collection presented Monday, March 6, 2017 in Paris. (AP Photo/Francois Mori) (AP)

The history of social distancing

Einav Rabinovitch-Fox - The Conversation
(Cheryl Bronson/Getty Images)

Animal exports in the Victorian era

Harriet Ritvo - The Conversation
"The Last Effort and Fall of Tippoo Sultaun," by Henry Singleton, c.1800 (Wiki Commons)

When a corporation colonizes a country

Keith A. Spencer
Group Of Dogs With Owners At Obedience Class (Getty/Highwaystarz-Photography)

How breeding is changing dogs' brains

Nicole Karlis
July 27, 2006 arrest file photo made available by the Palm Beach Sheriff's Office, in Florida, shows Jeffrey Epstein. (AP/Palm Beach Sheriff's Office)

The Jeffrey Epsteins of Victorian London

LeeAnne M. Richardson - The Conversation
Therese Oneill (Little, Brown and Company)

Stop romanticizing Victorians

Amanda Marcotte

Victorian hipster trolls

Mary Elizabeth Williams