Elizabeth Gaskell had an eventful upbringing. The youngest of eight children, she and her older brother were the only ...

PLANS to remove the tiled floor and pews of All Saints’, Ryde, have been opposed by the Victorian Society, which warned last ...

HULL—The Hull Historical Society will recreate the early 20th century at a Victorian Morning Tea at Saturday, March 15, at American Reformed Church in Hull.

Two derelict buildings at George and Robert Stephenson's historic locomotive works in Newcastle are in line to be partly ...

This month’s Chapter Chat pick is Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre was originally published in the 1840s under a male ...

Dickens felt strongly that Victorian society ignored the poverty of its underclass. On the one hand were the rich who enjoyed comfort and feasting at Christmas, and on the other were children ...

She tells Austwick’s story through a curated collection of newspaper reports and court documents, revealing how a single act of violence sent tremors through Victorian society. Austwick was born ...

Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol to raise awareness of some of the problems in Victorian society. He thought that many of these problems could be solved if people were kinder to each other.

Set in late-19th century England, the play pokes fun at the pretentiousness of the upper-class Victorian society that forces Jack and Algernon to create fictitious lives to avoid the social ...