Charles Dickens’s The Old Curiosity Shop became an instant bestseller when it was published in serial form between 1841 and 1842. Queen Victoria was a fan. Since then, the book’s reputation and ...

The story of Sweeney Todd first appeared on the stage in London in 1847 at Britannia Theatre, Hoxton, in a melodrama, 'The String of Pearls', based on a popular "penny dreadful" serialised story. Now ...

Kupferberg shows how she used to splice movie films. With so much talk about the various technologies used in presenting films these days, it’s easy to think that the earliest forms of film appeared ...