Victorian History

Although child labour was to arouse the strongest of emotions during the Victorian Era, it was certainly not a new phenomenon.  In England c...

During the middle years of the nineteenth century, a knowledge of etiquette became increasingly important on formal occasions. Books on the...

A dispute between a tailor and a customer hardly seems newsworthy. Even should the matter go to court, it would be unlikely to merit more th...

It is commonly believed that the first practicing Jew to sit in the House of Commons was Lionel de Rothschild. Technically this may be true...

An East End Opium Den, 1870 For many, images of the darker side of Victorian London are shaped by the descriptions of writers like Henry Ma...