AN incredible collection of sepia photos encapsulate what working life was like for people in Victorian Britain. The poignant pictures, taken by photographer John Thompson, are like a portal back t… ...

As before, Griffin focuses on the lives of the working class, but whereas Liberty’s Dawn covered 1760 to 1900, Bread Winner looks at 1830 to 1914, cleaving to the same method of investigation ...

Tattooing was a growing and accepted phenomenon in Victorian England – not restricted to convicts, sailors and soldiers.

Her book, “Fatherhood and the British Working Class, 1865-1914”, published by Cambridge University Press, concludes that the myth of the Victorian father grew up partly to subsequent ...

Richard Cobden (1804-65) was a Victorian radical, a hugely influential British politician and campaigner and anything but a conservative. He was also the “International Man,” a free-trade icon ...

London life for the Victorian working class. Credit: Dominic Winter Book Auctions These pictures were taken in 1877 by photojournalist, John Thomson. He was a pioneer of his time, shunning images ...