In 1838, a London estate agent began advertising its ‘cosmorama’ to rich clients seeking expensive estates.
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These schools were radical for their time as they countered the rigid Victorian association of women with domestic work.
Victorian architects knew how to design homes to stay cooler, and their techniques could be used today.
Social media bans suggest a resurgence of conservative values in our digital lives. But at what cost to young people’s autonomy, creativity and expression?
Students in this literature course read a range of novels, short stories and more on grave robbing, murder, terror and grief.
Excluded from a male-dominated art world, women artists in early 20th-century London pioneered their own social networks.
I’ve spent almost eight years learning about the lives and experiences of these forgotten explorers.
While the origins of the cross as a kiss are still debated, the answer likely lies in the letters of working-class lovers like these.
Between 40% and 50% of children didn’t live past 5 in the US during the 19th century. Popular authors like Charles Dickens documented the common but no less gutting grief of losing a child.
Mothers are smudged out and poorly cloaked beneath drapes in these 19th century portraits. But these photos are not so much relics of shoddy photography than an ode to childhood.
Architectural models are an effective way of showing the public what new major buildings will look like.
A group of determined women founded the RSPB, but they had great support behind the scenes by a little-known Argentinean naturalist.
The Rebecca riots saw Welsh farmers disguised as women destroy tollgates as a way of challenging what they believed was an oppressive taxation system.
People have invested emotionally in animals for thousands of years, but their financial situation directly impacts their ability to properly care for for their pets.
This well-researched book brings to life the odd case of Sir Roger Tichborne and those around him.
Police matrons in the 1800s opened the door for women to join the police force, yet most of us have never heard of them.
In the 19th century, several English women wrote accounts of their world travels. While considered by some as second-rate travellers, they were just as restless as their male contemporaries.
The 1859 book ‘Self-Help’ by Scottish journalist and physician Samuel Smiles was written in bite-sized pieces reminiscent of today’s wellness and lifestyle New Year tips.
‘In the Bleak Midwinter’ is now a treasured Christmas classic, but it didn’t start life that way – not in the UK, at least.
The journal of a Pre-Raphaelite writer might help explain today’s turn to spiritualism.
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Professor of English, Macalester College
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