Tag: Victorians On the RecordVictorian cats, medieval hospitals & frontline nursesThursday 26 November 2020Illustrator Louis Wain changed the way we think about cats and dedicated his life...VideoA momentous question: decorating the Victorian homeMonday 22 April 2013The rise of an increasingly affluent Victorian middle class and the availability of mass...AudioTithe tales: what the Tithe Survey records tell us about early Victorian place and societyFriday 2 March 2012The maps and textual records of this vast tax survey date from around 1840,...AudioResearching Mr Briggs’ Hat: an account of Britain’s first railway murderFriday 27 January 2012The 1864 murder of Thomas Briggs in his first-class railway carriage is investigated through...AudioBroadmoor revealed: The Victorian asylumFriday 25 February 2011Broadmoor Hospital opened in 1863 and has always admitted patients who would otherwise have...