Life in the Victorian Kitchen: Culinary Secrets and Servants' Stories
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Have you ever wondered what life was like for domestic servants, the etiquette involved during upper...
Unlocking the Church: The Lost Secrets of Victorian Sacred Space
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The Victorians built tens of thousands of churches in the hundred years between 1800 and...
The Unreliable Life of Harry the Valet: The Great Victorian Jewel Thief
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17 October 1898. An impossibly daring jewellery heist aboard a train at Paris's Gare du Nord station...
Charles Pelham Villiers: Aristocratic Victorian Radical
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This book provides the first biographical study of Charles Pelham Villiers (1802-1898), whose long...
Classical Victorians: Scholars, Scoundrels and Generals in Pursuit of Antiquity
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Victorian Britain set out to make the ancient world its own. This is the story of how it failed. It...
Mary Gladstone and the Victorian Salon: Music, Literature, Liberalism
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The daughter of one of Britain's longest-serving Prime Ministers, Mary Gladstone was a notable...
A Week on the Broads: Four Victorian Gents at Sail on a Norfolk Gaffer in 1889
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During their university holidays in the late 1880s, S.K. Baker and three of his University College...
Working on the Victorian Railway: Life in the Early Days of Steam c.1830-1855
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Much has been written about the success of the Rocket at the Rainhill Trials, but what was it like...
Mrs Guppy Takes a Flight: A Scandal of Victorian Spiritualism
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Many moons ago, in the high Victorian era, Mrs. Guppy, the famous medium, was enjoying a sparkling...