Victorian

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'.

Rosemary O'Day explains how a reinvestigation of the data collected by a pioneer social scientist is shedding new light on the lifestyles of Victorian London.

Philip Collins argues that Dickens' writing reflects not only a marvellous rapport with a cross-section of Victorian society but an integration of populism with a concern for 'the raising up of those that are down.'

Paul Rich describes how the aggressive imperialism of the late Victorian age co-existed uneasily with the intellectual search for English 'roots' in a pre-industrial and mythical past.