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Professor John Kent, University of Bristol, examines Victorian religious buildings in Bristol using them as evidence of life in, and activity in the Victorian period. The buildings include St Agnes Church,...
Podcast. Barbara Bogaev interviews Charles LaPorte about his new book, The Victorian Cult of Shakespeare: Bardology in the Nineteenth Century.
A support video containing three programmes. [See individual programme titles for synopses.]
Mechanical innovations in Victorian agriculture spread unevenly and slowly in a time when manual labour was still plentiful and cheap. Follows the grain harvest, examining the changes and their effects on...
Looks at the early history of the National Gallery and the controversies surrounding its acquisition of early Italian paintings. Victorian attitudes to art of the past and what value it had to contemporary...
Visits cemeteries in Manchester, London and the Buckinghamshire countryside, to point out the evidence they provide of Victorian attitudes to death and burial. An examination of memorials, including some in...
An ambitious living history BBC series in which one corner of the East End of London is taken back to the late Victorian era, a time when East End poverty began to make the headlines. The Slum charts the...
The Victorians brought healthcare within the reach of ordinary people for the very first time, and heralded a consumer revolution that reached far beyond medicine to create the model for the modern high...
Bob Nicholson (Edge Hill University) discusses a project which he undertook in 2014 with the British Library Labs to find and revive thousands of forgotten Victorian jokes. His ‘Victorian Meme Machine’...
Presents a picture of Victorian London, based on a research conducted by the Victorian journalist and founder of ‘Punch’ Henry Mayhew. He accurately transcribed interviews with a wide range of working...
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