Taking the waters became a Victorian passion and spa towns flourished. In this article the first prize winner in History Today's Essay Competition Pamela Steen, a student at the Open University, describes the pleasure and the pains of this fashion.
Ziggi Alexander and Audrey Dewjee consider the life of a remarkable Victorian woman.
James Walvin looks at attitudes to black people in the context of slavery
Paul Edwards profiles two black men who settled in 18th Century Britain.
Ian Bradley shows that the characters and plots of Gilbert and Sullivan's operas reveal much that is of interest to the historian about certain individuals and institutions of the Victorian era.
William Hogarth's representations of black people in the 18th century.
Barbara Bush looks at the experience of black people in 1930s Britain.
Paul Edwards traces the leading black figures of the period.
The Exhibition held in Wembley in 1924 was intended to herald a great Imperial revival - in fact, as Kenneth Walthew shows here, it was to prove an escapist delight from post-war gloom and retrenchment.
Richard Mullen looks back on the wedding of Prince Albert Edward to Princess Alexandra of Denmark.
