Scarlet Fever Spikes in the UKÂ

The world is full of opportunities to live like a Victorian, if you look hard enough. For instance: The U.K. is worried about rising rates of scarlet fever.
Could You Have Survived In The Victorian Era?
Only if you had computer games! Test your 19th century acumen with this nifty site. (I was batting .1000 until I wore a low-cut gown to a dinner party.)
Sophie Dahl Takes On Mrs. Beeton
Newishly-minted domestic goddess Sophie Dahl will be fronting a BBC documentary on Isabella Beeton, the author of Victorian Bible Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management. Despite the authoritative title, the matron in question was 23.
Photocollage: The Victorian Version Of Photoshop
"Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage," an amazing exhibit that just showed at the Metropolitan Museum, illuminates a bizarre, fascinating art form. The Victorian ladies making these surreal photo-scrap-books were not kidding around - except when they were:
Outsider Art From Another Era
"Madalene and Louisa Pasley used their imagination in the 1850s to create a fantasy world where humans interacted with giant insects." Yes, please!
A Brief History Of The Hysterical Man
For generations, "hysteria" was considered a woman's complaint. A new book blows the lid off the myth.
