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Dickens's novels highlighted the poverty of education for the working classes. The all-important Education Act was finally passed in the year of his death.
Almost as soon as Dickens died in 1870, writers and illustrators began to take liberties with his life and career.
The statue was part of a push in the Victorian era to create mercantile heroes. Colston's slaving activities were conveniently glossed over.
In the past, maintaining physical distance was an important aspect of public life – and clothes played a big role.
Anti-vaccinators today echo 200-year-old debates.
We may think tattooing is a modern phenomenon, but the reasons for its popularity are not dissimilar to those seen in the prisons and convict ships of the Victorian era.
Born the same year as Queen Victoria, Eliot faced similar life choices to many young women today
In an act of 'mummy-shaming' to rival anything today’s internet has to offer, Queen Victoria is thought to have named a cow in the royal dairy after her daughter, who had decided to breastfeed.
Images of wildfires are powerful, but can make climate catastrophe seem like something spectacular and distant. So some artists are focusing on the plants and bugs in our immediate surroundings.
Most Victorian convicts left prison weighing the same as when they arrived. Some even gained weight.
Buildings built for writing and reading the news altered the urban fabric.
If it hadn't been for A Christmas Carol, the menu may well have centred on goose (or a boar's head).
For Victorian shop workers, Christmas could be a miserable time of long hours and low pay.
As the industry continues its decline, a look back at how the Victorians valued their local news gathering operations.
As climate extremes mount, let's reflect on Victorian London's 'Great Stink' sewage crisis - when things finally became so bad authorities were forced to accept evidence, reject sceptics, and act.
Mad, bad or dangerous – the gripping true crime story of Grace Marks, who caused a sensation in the 19th century and still holds fascination today.
There are strong parallels between the Trump administration’s policy on immigrant families and the 19th century's 'New' Poor Laws of England, whose cruelty was illuminated by writer Charles Dickens.
From its origin in the early 19th century, lion taming has elicited both awe and horror.
Charles Dickens imagined a robot theme park way back in 1838.
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Senior Lecturer in Journalism, University of Central Lancashire
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Hilary Marland is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor of History, University of Warwick
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Professor of Earth Science and Climate Change, Director of PANGEA Research Centre, Director of Chronos 14Carbon-Cycle Facility, and UNSW Director of ARC Centre for Excellence in Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, UNSW
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Lecturer, 19th-Century History and Digital Humanities, University of Liverpool
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Professor of Social Justice, University of Liverpool
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Senior Lecturer in History, University of York
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PhD candidate, University of Exeter
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Vice-Chancellor's Fellow, University of Sheffield
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Reader in Psychology, Edge Hill University
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Associate Professor, History, University College Dublin
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Professor of History, Keele University
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Professor In Criminology, Staffordshire University
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Oxford
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Narrative and Play, University of Dundee
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Surrey Research Fellow, University of Surrey
