In a 1991 interview with singer Graham Nash, David Hockney explained how he applied his drawing skills to photography via the computer.

Even though this physician pre-dated germ theory, he was able to track a London outbreak of cholera to one particular water pump.

Perhaps the Harry Potter stories are so potent because they rework the iconic hero stories of medieval French Arthurian romances.

Healing ceremonies showed that monarchs ruled by God’s will, as divine power worked through anointed hands.

Queen Victoria's wedding, and its spectacular cake, caused a frenzy.

America’s favorite piece of workout equipment was developed as a device for forced labor in British prisons. It was banned as cruel and inhumane by 1900.

May of 1568 was a fateful month for Mary, Queen of Scots. She managed to escape prison, but only to be being defeated in battle soon after. Then she made the fateful decision to run to England.

Creature of the court, royalist and fop, dandy and dilettante, John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, knew how to scandalize with verse.

The Thames Tunnel, the world's first underwater tunnel, is still in use 175 years after its long-delayed opening, but you can't shop there anymore.

When it came time to describe what they saw under microscopes, Victorians couldn’t help but perceive a real-life fairyland.