In the same neighbourhood, Nelly Glashier, a domestic servant, endured a tortuous 16-hour working day with the occasional day off if she was lucky. ... Victorian and Edwardian Domestic Life, ...

Responding to people whose world has been upended by trauma calls for learning a new language. A language offering compassion ...

Life at a Victorian industrial school. video Life at a Victorian industrial school 13-year-old James Fleming from Perth explains how he came to be sent to an industrial school. Back to top ...

The Victorian 'lady swindler' with 40 aliases who convinced an admiral to be her sugar daddy and tried to con an island of crofters. By DAN BARKER and HARRY HOWARD, HISTORY EDITOR. Published: 19: ...

What we might call a bar cart began as Victorian England’s tea trolley. Whatever you call it and however you use it, this birch wood cart with white enameled wheels attracted $2,650 at auction.

In week five of our course on life in Victorian Britain, Ruth Goodman explores how the 19th century saw work change for most of the population, with shift working made possible by gas light, a new ...