Tag: Victorian AudioBig Ideas Series: ‘In Their Own Write: Welfare, Discipline and Pauper Agency in the Nineteenth Century’Tuesday 12 December 2017In this seminar, Dr Paul Carter introduces his new research project which he is undertaking...VideoInventions that didn’t change the world: a history of Victorian curiositiesTuesday 11 November 2014In an era when Britain led the world in technological innovation, a host of...AudioInventions that didn’t change the world: a history of Victorian curiosities – audioThursday 6 November 2014In an era when Britain led the world in technological innovation, a host of...AudioWebinar: Why did people fear the Victorian workhouse?Wednesday 3 September 2014The workhouse was a major feature in the lives of the poor, whether or...AudioDid she kill him? Addiction, adultery and arsenic in Victorian BritainFriday 22 August 2014Florence Chandler was in her early 20s when she married much older James Maybrick,...Audio‘…we may lie and die in a land of plenty…’: The Victorian poor in their own wordsTuesday 1 April 2014In all but the most specialist accounts of Victorian histories the poor are often...AudioWriter of the month: An intimate history of your homeSunday 29 September 2013Lucy Worsley discusses the writing of If Walls Could Talk: An Intimate History of...VideoA momentous question: decorating the Victorian homeMonday 22 April 2013The rise of an increasingly affluent Victorian middle class and the availability of mass...AudioKeeping it in the family: professional dynasties in 19th century EnglandFriday 26 October 2012The 19th century witnessed a huge expansion in the number of people in Britain...AudioOur ancestors and the fear of the Victorian workhouseTuesday 6 March 2012In 1834 the British government introduced the Poor Law Amendment Act (the introduction of...AudioRevolting to humanity: histories of mental healthFriday 20 May 2011The 19th century ushered in a new way of seeing mental health. For the...AudioFrom crime to punishment: criminal records of our ancestors from the 18th and 19th centuriesThursday 21 April 2011The second half of the 18th and the first half of the 19th centuries... 1 2 »