Selling alcohol in late Victorian Britain required a degree of cunning, ingenuity, and a leap of imagination....
Victorian Era
Explore the Victorian era from 1837 to 1901, including industrial change, imperial expansion, political reform, scientific discovery, culture, and daily life.
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...
The history of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (1888-1901), the most influential hermetic society of...
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...
Victorian working-class life was defined by long labor, low wages, and urban poverty, where industrial growth deepened...
[LEFT]: ‘Police Work in the East End’ from The Graphic: This image of ‘police work in...
Challenging the idea of the 19th century as one of secularisation, exploring the popularity of mesmerism, spiritualism and...
Watercolour portrait by William Buckler of Robert Hunt, 1842 — Wellcome Library, Creative Commons In 1848, the mineralogist,...
Embroidered book cover for Henshaw’s Horae Successivae (1632), white satin with a floral design edged in gold cord, featured...
Cartoon from Punch magazine, March 6th 1875, pp.106: (Internet Archive) Heather Tweed explores the story of the woman whose...
Coloured aquatint, ca. 1862, depicting a man covering his mouth with a handkerchief, walking through a smoggy...
Detail from John Leech’s illustration “Tarquinius Superbus makes himself king” featured in The Comic History of Rome – Internet Archive...
Lecture by Dr. James Mills at the Museum of London / 03.18.2013 Professor of Modern History, University...