University of Cambridge student and historian Emily Chung has discovered some interesting insight into Victorian Britain as ...

Unless you are a Victorian scholar, a mini crash-course on British Victorian history, culture and sociology would be helpful in order to really appreciate the new film "Effie Gray." A quick Wikipedia ...

Performing pigs, magic tricks, hypnotism, circus arts, pantomime and other popular forms of entertainment during the Victorian era are the focus of a new exhibition on view at the British Library in ...

In Victorian England, Ghost Stories Were a Beloved Christmas Tradition A version of this story originally ran in 2021; it has been updated for 2025. Halloween Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol ...

The questions raised in “Victorian Radicals,” a new exhibition at the Yale Center for British Art (YCBA), manifest in the vivid juxtaposition of two objects at the show’s third-floor entrance: a ...

In the March/April issue, I devoted this space to Unpacking My Library: Writers and Their Books, published by Yale University Press and edited by Leah Price, a scholar at Harvard. This column ...

Victoria became queen at the age of 18 after the death of her uncle, William IV. She reigned for more than 60 years, longer than any other British monarch. Her reign was a period of significant social ...

In an effort to discourage alcohol consumption during the late 19th century, British temperance groups produced and circulated "drink maps" showing where people in particular cities could buy booze.

My copy of The Victorians came in the same post as a clipping from the (London) Daily Telegraph. The article opens, "Revisiting the Victorian era for lessons to apply in the 21st century may seem an ...

When sisters Charlotte and Katie Manye found out they were going to England in 1891, they were overjoyed — "leaping and whirling ... in a dance of triumph" Katie Manye said of their journey. "To ...

Mass squalor in Victorian Britain was a myth created by writers such as Charles Dickens — and the working class had many "luxury" items in their homes, a new book claims. The notion of 19th-century ...

The mid-Victorian rural diet — which consisted of locally produced vegetables, whole grains, dairy products, meat and fish — is similar to that currently recommended by public health officials.