Since the going-out-of-business signs went up at The Toy Soldier in Fairport three weeks ago, every customer who walks through the quaint toy store's door in the old Victorian house wants to know ...

This was in 1893 when William Britain invented the first hollowed-out, lead-alloy toy soldier for Victorian children. Previously, most toy soldiers had been two-dimensional solid lead figures ...

Lead was used for things like lead soldiers and painting children’s toys, and with a child’s habit to lick and put toys in their mouth, the risk was high. But why exactly were the Victorians ...

Vivian Lord, from Little Rock, Arkansas, wrote to toy companies after realising that all toy soldiers were invariably male, writes Mihir Zaveri ...

This was in 1893 when William Britain invented the first hollowed-out, lead-alloy toy soldier for Victorian children. Previously, most toy soldiers had been two-dimensional solid lead figures ...

This is the month we celebrate a holiday that goes back to 1868, after the Civil War. Flags were put on soldiers’ graves in the North, and Gen. John A.