Current views concerning Victorian femininity continue to be dominated by the 19th-century concept of domestic purity and the associated figure of the ideal woman, the 'angel in the house', carrying ...

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 ...

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

Although Mrs Beeton is known as a source of culinary inspiration, she meant much more than this to her contemporaries. She was the very embodiment of the Victorian ideology of a woman's place being in ...

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 ...

Airs Sunday, Jan. 3, 2020 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV + Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021 at 10 p.m. on KPBS 2 —Discover the Little-Known But Profound Role “The Architect of the Victorian Era” Played in Shaping Britain ...

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 ...

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 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.

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 ...

Pax Romana is often cited as a model for Pax Americana, both emerging after periods of war to guarantee security and order. But as Pax Americana wanes, at least in the view of Shlomo Ben-Ami, a ...