This room-by-room guide brims with delightful description and discussion of the Victorians and their domestic environments. Flanders (A Circle of Sisters, which was shortlisted for the Guardian First ...

Social historian Flanders (Inside the Victorian Home: A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian England) does a superb job of demonstrating the role that the press and fiction writers played in shaping ...

The 19th century, as she says, "was the century of urbanization." Whereas in 1801 "only 20 percent of the population of Great Britain lived in cities," a century later "that figure had risen to nearly ...

For the 16th year, the Victorian Society is calling on the public to nominate Victorian or Edwardian buildings in England and ...

All those episodes of “Masterpiece Theater” have left an indelible image of the Victorian era as a time of civility and restraint. People of that time may have been hypocrites, but at least they were ...

In 1874, Mary Williams, a 28-year-old Irish woman, was accused of murdering her husband, Nicholas Manning, with arsenic. What began as a quiet domestic life soon unraveled into deception, suspicion, ...

A rare 19th Century life-size mannequin is due to go under under the hammer at auction. The Victorian model, once used by the ...

In 1926, the historian Beth Zion (Roochel) Lask, author of The Jews in England: A History For Young People read an essay ...

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 ...