Scrapbooking was a popular pastime in Victorian times for both children and adults. Creating a scrapbook was not only a craft project, it was also a way of preserving memories. Victorians bought their ...

Scrapbooking was a popular pastime in Victorian times for both children and adults. Creating a scrapbook was not only a craft project, it was also a way of preserving memories. Victorians bought their ...

An early edition of one of the world’s most famous documents, the Magna Carta, was unearthed in a pretty unexpected place – a scrapbook. Mark Bateson, a Kent, U.K.-based archivist, was tasked with ...

The Vault is Slate’s history blog. Like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter @slatevault, and find us on Tumblr. Find out more about what this space is all about here. The decoupaged pages of this ...

Kent County Council archivist Dr. Mark Bateson with the Sandwich Magna Carta (all images courtesy Kent County Council) Imagine holding a copy of the Magna Carta, folding it up, and forgetting about it ...

Four framed copies of the Magna Carta — the founding document that laid the groundwork for long-established governing principles — were brought together for the first time at the British Library in ...

With the development around 1840 of chromolithography, the process of printing in colors, the ephemera of everyday Victorian life took on a vibrant new appeal. Calling cards, valentines, advertising ...

The Victorians are often credited with the invention of Christmas as we know it. That’s because the culture of Christmas was transformed during this period and expanded into a major holiday. It’s when ...

Bidders will get the chance to buy a bit of history tomorrow as a scrapbook detailing Victorian life in Coventry goes under the hammer. The ornately designed scrapbook is a timecapsule of Coventry and ...