From Cage Skirts to Power Suits, Women’s Fashion Always Knew How to Hold Its Shape

In 18th-century Europe, fashion became a spectacle. Skirts widened so much that…

Catching Rats, Eating Sins and Waking Up Strangers Was Once an Honest Day’s Work

Before alarm clocks, pest control companies, and public sanitation departments, entire professions…

This Shell Grotto Was Found in 1835, and We Still Don’t Know Who Built It or Why

In 1835, a man in the English seaside town of Margate was…