Donna Loftus explores how social change transformed the aspirations of an emerging Victorian middle class and the value this class represented. The image of the nineteenth century as a period of ...

Back in Victorian days an Irish good-bye would ... Music was a very important component of social gatherings in upper class homes. And being able to play well was one way a woman could distinguish ...

The Victorian era was a golden age for the middle ... showing how children from different social classes played and competed together. Five stones – a game similar to jacks - was also found ...

The shivers induced are reminiscent of those engendered by last summer`s pitbull frenzy, in which a small working-class ... into Victorian life that they may serve as a metaphor for social behavior.

looking at how its main characters tried to challenge the rigid Victorian social principles and inequality between social classes and sexes, and try to find a new and better way of living.

Elizabeth Negus MA, Head of English at Barking & Dagenham College, Essex will discuss the relationship between social class in early Victorian England and the medical practices current in this period ...

Victorian bandstands remain a popular feature ... Many of the more influential Victorians had worries about the working class. With what little leisure time they had, those employed in the mines ...