Life in Victorian Britain

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Black Victorians: radicals, muses, inmates & aristocrats . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The opthalmoscope

Victorian medicine: why the 19th century was a time of seismic medical change

An engraving of a prison hulk at Deptford, from a c1826 painting. (Photo by: Photo 12/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Floating hell: the brutal history of prison hulks

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15 minutes of fame Hannah Cusworth chooses Aina Forbes Bonetta

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Pod Suzanne Fagence Cooper WL

Love, marriage & wallpaper: the artistic lives of Jane and William Morris . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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An illustration of fossil hunter Dorothea Bate

Dorothea Bate: A fearless fossil hunter . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Victorian wedding, circa 1900: A wedding group poses in the garden, 1900. (Photo by F J Mortimer/Getty Images)

Living in sin: unmarried relationships in Victorian Britain

Photograph of Mrs Beeton bracing herself against a chair while wearing a long, dark-coloured gown

The secret life of Mrs Beeton: 10 pieces of life advice from her famous Book of Household Management

Residents of a London workhouse drinking beer at rows of tables

How gruelling was the Victorian workhouse?

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Life in the workhouse podcast with Peter Higginbotham

Life in the workhouse: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

At dinner, St Marylebone Workhouse, London, c1901 (1903)

The rise and fall of the workhouse

The Irregulars. From left to right: Prince Leopold (Harrison Osterfield), Jessie (Darci Shaw), Bea(Thaddea Graham), Spike (McKell David), and Billy (Jojo Macari)

The Irregulars: the real history behind Netflix’s supernatural Sherlock spinoff

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The 'Iron Duke' steam locomotive with railway workers

The history of railways in Britain: from the first steam trains to the rail revolution . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Victorian surgeon Robert Liston during an operation

An appointment at the house of death: the horror of the early Victorian hospital

Charles Dickens used his novels as a platform from which to attack the injustices that he believed blighted 19th-century Britain. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

Charles Dickens: prison reformer, scourge of capitalists, champion of the poor