While wartime conditions might prevent them from practicing their ideal of the “good death,” most Americans in the Civil War era struggled to maintain familiar mourning rituals in death’s ...

A LONG lost gold ring belonging to a Victorian geologist which was found on an African beach has now been returned to ...

A LONG-LOST mourning ring engraved with the name, birth date and death date of Victorian-era Scottish geologist, writer and ...

The shade used to be off-limits, reserved solely for those in mourning. In the Victorian era, widows were expected to wear black for one year after the death of a spouse (or even longer). Queen ...

A long-lost Scottish mourning ring discovered in South Africa in 2022 is set to go on display for the first time.