It's a beautiful book. Crane's eye-catching illustrations of Victorian London are accompanied by Houghton's whimsical verse. London Town also offers a glimpse into a rarely considered sub-genre of ...

Most of us, when we think of Victorian London, think of the work of Charles Dickens. Historian Judith Flanders' uses Dickens' words to paint a vivid portrait of a vibrant but troubled city.

TRAFFIC IN INNOCENTS (230 pp.)—Charles Terrot—E. P. Dutton ($3.75). One rainy evening in 1881 a weary, bewildered girl of 17 stood in the middle of London’s bustling King’s Cross Station ...

The book allies us most closely with Quinn le Blanc (not her real name), who is “London’s most talented con woman” and who is assisted by shadowy Mr. Silk.

Tiepolo Blue by James Cahill (2022) "Dulwich, however, is different. An oasis of parks and trees and well-kept Victorian villas in Tudor or Gothic dress, strung out along grass-fringed roads.

The book allies us most closely with Quinn le Blanc (not her real name), who is “London’s most talented con woman” and who is assisted by shadowy Mr. Silk.

THE LETTERS AND PRIVATE PAPERS OF WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY, Volume I: 1817-1840; Volume II: 1841-1851 —Collected and Edited by Gordon N. Ray — Harvard University Press ($12.50).William ...

One of the most famous books of the Victorian age is The Book of Household Management. ... (London, first edition 1861). It's a useful source for social historians, ...

In my new book, Modelling the Metropolis, I show how architectural models became a crucial communication tool in Victorian London. They enabled politicians and the wider public to visualise, ...

This is a highly entertaining novel, but its graphic descriptions of nauseating smells, blood-soaked corpses, the under-age prostitutes, and maltreated children of Victorian London are not for the ...

London: Lost Interiors is an opportunity to glimpse inside the homes of London from a time well before it was common to photograph them – Victorian, Edwardian and early 20th century London.

Many of London’s pubs date back to the Victorian era, reflecting a time of rapid growth and prosperity, but there are also pubs from the Georgian era and even as far back as the 16th and 17th ...