CAMBRIDGE — “Black Chronicles II” is simple to describe. It consists of somewhat more than 100 recently discovered, or rediscovered, photographs of people of color in Victorian England.

Astonishing pictures show some of Britain's first rock climbers scaling peaks in full Victorian dress and without any safety equipment. Black and white images taken in the Lake District ...

Victorian artists were no different. When they saw black people, they wanted to capture them in paint or on film and present them to a predominantly white society. But in exhibiting images of ...

“Internally, tiled floors—either black and white ... Victorian property that had been extensively remodelled by its previous owner,” Gurney, who grew up surrounded by the imaginative ...