Fake health news can feel like an epidemic these days, but it was also rampant during the Victorian era, when bodily ailments were often a matter of life-or death. But unlike the questionable remedies ...

In 1848, the British government decided to draw up a precisely measured map of London. Imperial expansion had seen the city develop quickly, particularly around the docks and the City of London. There ...

The emotional meaning of a place from centuries ago can be difficult to resurrect. The Stanford Literary Lab has plotted quotes from over 700 19th-century authors who mentioned locations in London in ...

Whether you’re a Victorian history nerd or just captivated by the period setting of Miss Scarlet and The Duke, you’ll want to take a deeper look at everyday life in 1882 London—when dubious medicines ...

The Victorian City: Images and Realities edited by HJ Dyos and Michael Woolf (Routledge, 1973) Victorian Babylon: People, Streets and Images in Nineteenth-Century London by Lynda Nead (Yale University ...

A drawing of dancing at Enon Chapel from George Walker's "Lectures on the metropolitan grave-yards" | Wellcome Collection // CC BY 4.0 Victorian London was a fast-growing, sprawling metropolis. The ...

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