Victorian

First portrait of a criminal published in a British newspaper

On 27th June 1881, 64-years-old coin dealer Isaac Gold was brutally murdered on the 14:00 London to Brighton express train....

16/05/2015

By the time Victoria became queen of Great Britain in 1837 the powers of the monarch were much more restricted...

24/02/2013

It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say he is one who never inflicts pain. This description is...

26/05/2012

The nature of shopping changed dramatically in the Victorian period. As incomes and living standards rose across the nation in...

04/02/2012

Thanks to his seminal 1843 novel A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens is often credited with inventing winter festivities as we...

29/11/2011