Only 18 when she became Queen of Britain, Victoria gave her name to an age and an empire. In this collection, learn who she was and what happened to people and countries during her lengthy reign.
Along with her drawings of animals, Beatrix illustrates insects, fossils, plants, and fungi.
See pictures of Britain's Lake District where the Potter family spends their summers starting in 1882.
Today's India and Great Britain bear little resemblance to the time of William Makepeace Thackeray; learn about some of these differences.
Child miners suffer from horrible conditions and have health problems including stunted growth.
Today child miners still work in some countries, but laws now protect them in the U.S. and the U.K.
To fairly assess the impact of Dicken's "A Christmas Carol," on British culture, we have to examine what Christmas was like, in the UK, before Dickens...
As Jack the Ripper's second victim, Annie Chapman's murder is similar to Nichol's.
The Mahdi dies after capturing Khartoum, but his Mahdist forces make Omdurman their capital.
Before John Wilkes Booth plans an assassination, he plans a kidnapping of President Lincoln.
Examine questions and discussion topics about the life and legacy of Beatrix Potter.
In the 1600s, the East India Company becomes one of the most powerful businesses in the world.
Norman Warne is an editor who first helps Beatrix with her books, and then becomes her romantic partner.
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