The Victorians

Bring back Victorian YIMBY-ism

We cling to the buildings our 19th century forebears left behind, but they would decry our squeamishness

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The myth of the Victorian Christmas

Our values today are of consumerism and instant gratification, inherited from our Victorian forebears

Sacred Cows
Dazzled by manias and lured by wild gambling

The drives behind the Victorian periodical press and penny literature

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Land and sea: the global reach of Britain’s armed forces in the nineteenth century

Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the reach and organisation of Britain’s armed forces in protecting and expanding the British empire

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Entering the world of Weird fiction

The short stories of the long nineteenth century through the lens of Covid-19

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Emerging from the shadow of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

Placing the poems of Pre-Raphaelite muse Elizabeth Siddal in context

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Our “Nation’s Village Hall” turns 150

Anna Price tracks the emergence and endurance of Albertopolis, and how the Royal Albert Hall ties it all together

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How liberal and egalitarian was nineteenth century France?

Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about the conflicts and continuities of France from Louis Philippe to the Belle Epoque

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An awful warning

Ainsworth’s fate was sealed not how he wrote but what he placed at the heart of his stories

Books
Unusual eminent Victorian

Christopher Fildes reviews a new biography of Walter Bagehot

Books