Victorian
Cragside
Bernard Porter looks at the Victorian capitalist who made his fortune from dealing in weapons of war and constructed a Northumberland haven with the proceeds.
Dickens and the Construction of Christmas
The best-loved of Britain's novelists penned a tale that struck a potent chord in the popular revival of the season of goodwill. Geoffrey Rowell explains its appeal and its powerful religious and social overtones.
The Victorian Origins of a 'Group 4' Prison Service
John Black considers how the Victorians got away from privatising prisons.
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.
Allinson's Staff of Life - Health Without Medicine in the 1890s
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.
Changing the Tune: Popular Music in the 1890s
Ian Bradley looks at what qualified as family favourites in the last decade of the nineteenth century.
lmagine that you are Erasmus... Rabelais...Queen Victoria...Karl Marx...
A Rosemary O'Day on imagining you're Erasmus and ways of seeing 1450-1600.