The Victorians
Writing lives
The life story of the biography, from Victorian glorification to Bloomsbury boldness to contemporary obliquity
Here be flagons
The temperance campaigners realised that a picture can achieve more than a thousand words of argument
Big beasts versus the Bible
Darwin sidelined the Creator by documenting the slow mechanisms of evolution
In praise of people’s parks
A civilising tradition has been sadly neglected
Rickards remembered
A fine tribute to an industrious architectural eccentric
Passionate subjectivity
La traviata, ENO, Coliseum
Why public health has become a dirty word
The field has been hijacked by a politicised and self-serving class of experts
Pains of Victorian labour
The experience of pregnancy and childbirth in 19th century Britain was no picnic
Degrading Dickens
How the BBC lowered expectations
We are not so far from the Victorians
There is no cause for despair