Dickens asked for a private burial near Gad’s Hill, but a secret service in Westminster Abbey turned...
Victorian Era
Victorian law moved from forbidding accused persons to testify to granting them a perilous choice between cross-examination...
Victorian electric cures promised to recharge weak bodies, calm nerves, restore virility, and heal chronic pain. Most...
Victorian Britain inherited suicide as felo de se, a felony against the self, God, and society. Sympathy...
Victorian mourning was not simply morbid fascination. Nineteenth-century Britain built a culture that kept the dead visibly...
Victorian parenting made childhood a moral project, shaping children through discipline, innocence, class expectations, gender roles, schooling,...
Before modern adoption law, Victorian children moved through kinship, charity, workhouses, secrecy, labor, and rescue, exposing family’s...
Victorian gender was never fixed, as domestic ideology, masculinity, law, sexuality, reform, and the New Woman continually...
In Victorian society, creditworthiness was judged through character, class, and reputation, revealing how financial trust functioned as...
The Jezreelite movement’s rapid collapse in Victorian England reveals how charismatic authority, once undermined by hypocrisy and...
In the nineteenth century, scientists and thinkers widely believed the universe was filled with life, a confidence...
Victorian Britain fused war, industry, and empire into a powerful economic system, where corporate growth and military...
Victorian Britain’s culture of public virtue masked a volatile landscape of clerical scandal, political exposure, and institutional...
In 1873, Samuel Williams ignited debate over “mercy killing,” exposing Victorian anxieties about medical authority, morality, and...
In 1889 London, a male brothel serving elite clients exposed the fragility of Victorian morality and the...
It became a sought-after accessory. By Carol A. GrissomSenior Objects ConservatorSmithsonian Institution Queen Victoria’s reign over the British Empire...
Across the long history traced here, moments of technological change repeatedly provoke the same fear: that creativity...
The middle class saw itself as both the moral guardian and the practical engine of progress, defining...
Robert FitzRoy was not only the first popular weather forecaster; he was an architect of the very...
The stories were infused with socio-metaphysical allegories regarding women and worth. The vast popularity of ghost stories...
The legacies of this trade remain. Modern zoos still bear the architectural and ideological fingerprints of their...
Its legacy endures in the study of psychosomatic disorders. By Matthew A. McIntoshPublic HistorianBrewminate Introduction In the...
Protecting children’s rights wasn’t a thing at the dawn of the 19th century. By Dr. Marah GubarProfessor...
People flooded into industrial areas and commercial cities. Curated/Reviewed by Matthew A. McIntoshPublic HistorianBrewminate Progress Economy, industry,...
Novels tapped into communal fears. By Dr. Andrea Kaston TangeProfessor of EnglishMacalester College Introduction Modern medicine has...
The scale of pauperism. By Dr. Samantha WilliamsProfessor of Social HistoryInstitute of Continuing EducationUniversity of Cambridge Abstract...
Victorians found ways to communicate without writing a single word. By Joanna EspinCuratorThe Postal Museum Language of...
Richard Owen was the Victorian scientist who first named the “dinosaurs” in the 19th century. This article,...
The impact of the early railway was registered as both exciting and horrifyingly destructive. The opening of...
Moral prudishness pushed Thomas Hardy and George Eliot to develop more creative and thoughtful writing practices. Introduction...