1. Place the cravat cloth around your collar with the right side extending slightly longer than the left. 2. Placing the right side over and under the left, create a loose X with the cloth, leaving ...

A corset with inflatable bust and an anti-garrotting cravat are among a series of designs found in the National Archives' and turned into a book called Inventions that Didn't Change the World By ...

The murky streets of Victorian England could be a dangerous place for a gentleman. And in a world where strangulation was the killer’s favoured technique the grisly looking device pictured here ...

“I had an immense advantage over many others,” wrote the Victorian inventor and steelmaker Henry Bessemer in his autobiography, “inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice ...

A student who dresses as a Victorian says he thinks he was born in the wrong era. Xavier Layton, 20, a student from Texas, US, is obsessed with the 1800s and is rarely seen without his Victorian ...