Victorian architecture is a series of architectural revival styles in the mid-to-late 19th century. Setting the Trend...
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Time, like place, is socially constructed rather than ‘natural’, and so one might expect ideas of time...
These reading places confirmed the centrality of periodical print to Victorian culture. Introduction We need to know...
Christmas Pudding as we know it is a Victorian innovation. Introduction Christmas Pudding is when the British...
How mushrooms became established as a stock motif of Victorian fairyland. This article, Fungi, Folklore, and Fairyland,...
The images serve as a testament to how clinical photography practice has changed as a result of...
Both the Georgian and Victorian eras were marked with significant changes, both socially and politically. The Georgians...
From marriage and sexuality to education and rights, looking at attitudes towards gender in 19th-century Britain. Introduction...
People drank for many different reasons and these reasons ranged across social class, gender, and region. Introduction...
Selling alcohol in late Victorian Britain required a degree of cunning, ingenuity, and a leap of imagination....
English writers found federalism attractive because it seemed a solution to the problems posed by Europe’s emerging...
During Queen Victoria’s reign Britain was the most powerful trading nation in the world. Introduction Victorian advances...
The relationship between cocaine and medical practitioners in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain. Introduction Cocaine is...
How medical pioneers and health innovations shaped the landscape of medicine in the 19th century during disease...
Acclimatization societies believed that animals could fill the gaps of a deficient environment. Introduction In 1890, a...
Looking at of the Gentleman’s Magazine, printers of county histories, collectors of manuscripts, and founder members of...
The impact of the early railway was registered as both exciting and horrifyingly destructive by Victorian writers....
Examining what made these cheap, sensational, highly illustrated stories so popular with the Victorian public. By Judith...
They needed others to see them, to draw people to their grief. Reader, he died. I’ve devoted...
In the 19th century, more people were reading more publications than ever before. This explains how technological,...
From public notes and broadsides to catchpennies and printed songs, examining the variety of street literature which...
The pervading strength and influence of Christianity becomes apparent in the abundance of religious poetry created during...
Analyzing the evolving state of British health in the nineteenth century and how Livingstone’s perceptions of this...
There began a cult of Khayyám that lasted at least until the First World War. By Roman...
Systematic colonization constitutes one of the most powerful and destructive examples of the ability of Victorian representations...
‘Thought-Forms, a strange, beguiling, frequently pretentious, utterly original book first published in 1901, emerged from a ferment...
In Victorian times, syphilis was believed to arise spontaneously in a prostitute’s body, a result of ‘immorality’....
Charming family scenes in Victorian adverts for children’s medicines were in stark contrast to some of the...
Examining the social and economic lives of the Victorian working classes and the poor. By Liza Picard / 10.14.2009...
 [LEFT]: ‘Police Work in the East End’ from The Graphic: This image of ‘police work in...