The Victorians

The life story of the biography, from Victorian glorification to Bloomsbury boldness to contemporary obliquity

The temperance campaigners realised that a picture can achieve more than a thousand words of argument

Darwin sidelined the Creator by documenting the slow mechanisms of evolution

A civilising tradition has been sadly neglected

A fine tribute to an industrious architectural eccentric

The field has been hijacked by a politicised and self-serving class of experts

The experience of pregnancy and childbirth in 19th century Britain was no picnic

How the BBC lowered expectations