Exploring the way Victorians bought, borrowed and read their books, and the impact of the popular literature...
Victorian
Many were conflicted between their desire to believe and their want of rigorous intellectual explanation, and material...
W.T. Stead’s 1885 account of the process by which wealthy Londoners procured teenagers for sex became a...
By midcentury, Victorian natural historians seemed hungry for information from formerly inaccessible regions of Africa. With a...
The pervading strength and influence of Christianity becomes apparent in the abundance of religious poetry created during...
Exploring rich and surprising form of Ceylonese nationalism inflected by late-Victorian radicalism. The Ceylon National Review (1906-1911) was...
An introduction to the development, sponsorship, and goals of European expeditions from the eighteenth to the nineteenth...
What bones tell us about the lives and deaths of the dead. In 2011, AOC Archaeology completed...
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...
The emergence of colonial migration circuits between Europe and Asia followed the ascendency of European mercantile and...
‘Thought-Forms, a strange, beguiling, frequently pretentious, utterly original book first published in 1901, emerged from a ferment...
Acoustical science fundamentally transformed the ways that Victorians conceptualized the relations between aesthetics and the body. This...
In the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, reading was a privileged skill available to the upper-class elite. This...