Fashion and Visual Culture in the 19th Century: The Crinoline Cage The middle of the nineteenth century was the great age...
Fuelling the Debate: The English Corn Law returns, the Corn Laws and the birth of political economy The Corn Returns, agricultural data from the 18th and 19th...
The City of London in Literature: Place, People and Pursuits Novelists reflected contemporary attitudes and influenced the way the City...
"The fangs of the serpent are hid in the bowl": The Temperance Movement How did what started as a temperance movement become a...
An Infernal Spark: Drink, Addiction and Disease Addiction is a familiar feature of contemporary society. Not only...
Incest and Folk-Dancing: Two things to be avoided How closely are we related to each other, and how...
Building the Victorian City: Splendour and Squalor By 1900 Britain had produced the world’s largest cities and...
On Top of the World, 1830 to 1914 Economic dominance brings cultural dominance and the architecture of Empire...