Victorian society was full of jobs that feel unbelievable today, yet they were once essential parts of daily life. From rat catchers scrambling through alleyways to pure finders collecting bizarre ...

If you are a mystery lover, or if you have ever wondered how the modern love of the genre began, you'll enjoy Summerscale's tracing of the early days of the profession and the fascination it exerted.

Victorian mothers regularly dosed their crying babies with opium-containing syrups to help them sleep, workers took laudanum to get through painful shifts, and middle-class women used it to cope with ...

Originally published under the title: The Victorian house : domestic life from childbirth to deathbed. London : HarperCollins, 2003. Publisher's description: The Victorian age is much closer to us in ...

In this six-part course, discover everything you need to know about Victorian Britain, guided by historian Ruth Goodman and filmed on location at Black Country Living Museum.

Stepping into the 1897 Poe House in Fayetteville feels like opening a time capsule where Victorian charm comes alive in every corner. Nestled in the city’s picturesque Haymount Historic District, at ...

From previous Perrier award-winner Will Adamsdale comes this middle class musical about all the important things in life; composting, learning Spanish, floundering relationships and, most of all, ...