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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...