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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.
Treatment for nervous exhaustion in the Victorian era could literally drive you mad.
Our obsession with gut health, diet and well-being is far from new: the Victorians had very similar concerns.
As former partner of TOWIE star Ferne McCann is sentenced for throwing acid in a nightclub, a criminologist considers the real reasons such attacks are on the rise.
A new BBC drama manages to capture the flawed, but sometimes brilliant, men of Victorian medicine.
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PhD Candidate and Public Scholar, Communication Studies, Concordia University
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Professor of History, University of Warwick
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Senior Lecturer in Journalism, University of Central Lancashire
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Leverhulme Trust Research Fellow, University of Birmingham
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Vice-Chancellor's Fellow, School of Education, University of Sheffield
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Professor in Modern History, University of York
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Professor of History, Keele University
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Reader in Psychology, Edge Hill University
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Professor of Social Justice, University of Liverpool
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Lecturer, 19th-Century History and Digital Humanities, University of Liverpool
