Freeing the Streets of Victorian London
Peter Atkins finds that though we might be considering toll roads, the Victorians were glad to get rid of them.
Peter Atkins finds that though we might be considering toll roads, the Victorians were glad to get rid of them.
Sarah Pepper investigates a medical pioneer whose name survives today on a bread wrapper, but whose sweeping system of wholefoods and natural prescriptions offended the medical establishment of late Victorian England.
Ian Bradley looks at what qualified as family favourites in the last decade of the nineteenth century.
A Rosemary O'Day on imagining you're Erasmus and ways of seeing 1450-1600.
Stephen Jones on Victorian things, trends and fashions.
John Springhall on violence in the 19th-century media
Michael Diamond discusses what popular songs and singers had to say about Britain's politicians in the 1880s and 1890s.
Homes for heroes? Gertrude Prescott Nuding argues that the inspiration behind and debates over the founding of Britain's National Portrait Gallery reveal the Victorian establishment at its most earnest about who was worth celebrating in 'our island story'.