Victorian
Many assumptions and values separate us from the Victorians, but belief in the supernatural is not one of them, argues Simone Natale.
Roger Hudson details the rebuilding of the world’s first theme park in south London in 1853.
Lucy Ribchester reveals how a love of the Victorian and Edwardian circus inspired her new historical novel, The Hourglass Factory.
Carroll’s perceived paedophilia seems to have little scholarly evidence.
Although unmentioned in modern reference books and works of economic history, Thornton was one of the greatest commercial figures of the day and, writes W.G. Hoskins, when he died, left “by far the largest fortune of the century to that date.”
Robert Rhodes James profiles the man rivalled only by Gladstone as the most able politician and Parliamentarian of his time.