Victorian slang: A to C
In 1909, J. Redding Ware sought to record the ‘passing English’ of the Victorian era, as he acknowledged that the language had... Read More
Victimhood and the Victorians: Samuel Smiles and Self-Help
Samuel Smiles’ remarkable and unexpected best-seller Self-Help (1859) was not only a hugely successful book, but it is seen as epitomising some... Read More
The Great Exhibition of 1851
We live in an age when superlatives are often bandied about to describe almost anything, but if any event in the nineteenth... Read More