Victorian life

INCREDIBLE colourised photos bring all aspects of Victorian London to life – including street sellers, child labourers, and busking musicians. The expertly colourised snaps were taken in the 1870s,…

INCREDIBLE colourised photos bring all aspects of Victorian London to life – including street sellers, child labourers, and busking musicians. The expertly colourised snaps were taken in the 1870s,…

'Sober but very immoral': What Victorian-era 'poverty maps' tell us about London today | Cities | The Guardian

My birthday is on Monday so today I am in a mood of recollecting that life is short and we should live it to the full. In honor of the "life is short" bit, I have come up with a slightly depressing list (don't worry - I will post a happier one tomorrow). The Victorians

I had another order over the weekend, and I was brought to tears. I told Jeffrey that It's my ever-living dream to make a beautiful blog that many will just love swimming to each day, make

In movies, the 19th century looks very romantic: luxurious dresses, exquisite hats with locks of hair sticking out from them, and gentlemen wearing stylish suits. All these things, of course, existed, but there were also many less attractive but no less fascinating things left off-screen.

The teaching profession has come a long way.

Photographer William Grundy captured picturesque scenes of rural serenity.

If you've ever looked at pictures from the Victorian era then you've probably noticed that nobody is smiling. Everybody looks so serious that it seems as if people in the 1800s simply didn't know how to have fun. But as these pictures prove, that wasn't always the case.

I share a few ways to begin the transition into an old fashioned lifestyle.

You may remember Gabriel and Sarah Chrisman as the couple who went viral for living as if they were in Victorian times. Four years later, looking at their life—and the reaction to it—outlines our society's most pressing cultural battles.

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The photos were taken by Scottish photographer John Thomson and give a glimpse into the daily grind of life in the capital over 150 years ago. Eleven ...

Francis Meadow (Frank) Sutcliffe (1853–1941) was an English pioneering photographic artist whose work presented an enduring record of life i...

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My husband and I dress, eat, travel, and live like it's still the 19th century. Here's what it's taught us about the 21st.