During the 19th Century a major social movement spread across the UK, where millions pledged themselves to a life of ...

Brits are sometimes accused of fogeyism, of prizing old things above anything new, but it’s not like that. What I see, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Victorian Britain was a nation of coffee-drinkers who paid few taxes, whose economy relied on trade and where defense spending swallowed a huge slice of income, statistics ...

The tides here have always been a bit sticky-fingered, taking what they want and giving back only what they can’t digest. But ...

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. In mid ...

Chris Grover has received funding from the British Academy/Leverhulme small grants scheme. The House of Lords has voted to delay the government’s plans to cut tax credits. The cuts form a significant ...