In a lavish Victorian-era parlor, a woman in a lace-trimmed dress half rises from the lap of a reclining man, her gaze ...

But it was very much a New World interpretation — crisp and efficient, almost managerial in its expertness — rather than one oozing with essential Victorian rectitude.

Victorian Britain Victoria became queen at the age of 18 after the death of her uncle, William IV. She reigned for more than 60 years, longer than any other British monarch.

This column continues the conversation, taking up Price's How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain , published in May by Princeton University Press.

The prosperity of the Victorian age was built at a time of rapid economic growth, powered by the Industrial Revolution. Fortunately for Britain, the process owed as much to evolution as revolution.

Alcohol Review: Illustrating Britain's Victorian Booze Restrictions Temperance activists argued that "the people" should have a say in how many alcohol sellers could serve a given neighborhood.

Historian Dr Onyeka Nubia examines the history of Victorian Britain by visiting various regions to better understand this period's complex history, which included societal changes, technological ...

The think tank warns that the UK risks “sliding back into the two nations of the Victorian era, marked by a widening gulf between mainstream society and a… poverty-stricken underclass.” ...

Mass squalor in Victorian Britain was a myth created by writers such as Charles Dickens — and the working class had many "luxury" items in their homes, a new book claims. The notion of 19th ...

The prosperity of the Victorian age was built at a time of rapid economic growth, powered by the Industrial Revolution. Fortunately for Britain, the process owed as much to evolution as revolution.

The think tank warns that the UK risks “sliding back into the two nations of the Victorian era, marked by a widening gulf between mainstream society and a… poverty-stricken underclass.” ...