Victorian History

Every reader of Christmas tales is familiar with the wonderful scene in Dickens' A Christmas Carol where two "portly gentlemen, p...

"The darkest, most ghastly shame in the land" wrote the Reverend Benjamin Waugh, Honorary Director of the National Society for the...

Zoos and menageries were very much in vogue all through Victoria's reign.  For many of her subjects, men and women who would not t...

In an earlier blog I wrote about the "Magnificent Seven," the cemeteries created in the 1840s to take pressure off the city of Lon...

Professor Moriarty In January of 1902, a little less than a year after the death of Queen Victoria or, as she was properly titled and st...