Articles by Lauren Young

She's responsible for developing the world of Ally Sloper, one of England's most iconic comic characters.

Beautiful and creepy.

Educational diagrams of scientific discoveries, from the moon's surface to the longest rivers.

While effective, the invention never quite took off.

In the 1920s, the armed robber Celia Cooney unintentionally became a symbol for the women's movement.

The centuries-old ritual started as a way to drive away evil spirits.

Drawn by hand, one sociologist detailed the whereabouts of over 1,300 active criminal enterprises.

It featured bullet-proof glass and a police siren.

The crowd cheers as it rolls down the slopes of Parliament Hill.

It takes a steady hand and hours of dedication.

Alice King Chatham's name is attached to some of the world's most pivotal aviation and space experiments.

A cartoonist illustrated and wrote accounts of weather-predicting and love spell-binding cats.

As the wax melts, the pitch changes.

New Yorkers would weather nuclear attack in an underground metropolis.

These intricate pieces of art are only temporarily preserved.

Who knew magazines could be good knitting material?

Recipes got a lot more creative during the days of food rationing.

Thieves employed monkeys to rob the wealthy of their coiffures.

In 2013, tiny hollow-tree homes for fairies started popping up around Overland Park.

Delectable lollipops, sourced from trees.

The frozen fields were home to tight pants and graceful, showy moves.

Artist and photographer Colette Fu uses the pop-up book to tell stories of minority tribes in China.

Artist Olga Skorokhod carves shapes into paper to create artistic cartography.

James Barry's gender identity was a military secret for nearly a century.