'Naming and Shaming' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Britain
Andy Croll on how publishing anti-social behaviour is a trick we have copied from the Victorians.
Victorian
Taxation 1688-1914
Patrick O'Brian evaluates the costs and benefits of Hanoverian and Victorian government.
'Skittles' and the Marquis - A Victorian Love Affair
A budding front-bench politician and his mistress ... not a tract for our times but an 1860s relationship recovered and reconstructed from love letters by the politician's biographer, Patrick Jackson.
Robert Peel - Statesman or Turncoat?
He marketed himself as a man of principle - a public image of which David Eastwood exposes the inaccuracy.
Blasphemy in Victorian Britain? Foote and the Freethinker
David Nash considers a cause celebre that tested tensions between pious tradition and a 'progressive' age.
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.