Stories
- Article
Drugs in Victorian Britain
Many common remedies were taken throughout the 19th century, with more people than ever using them. What was the social and cultural context of this development?
- In pictures
The Victorian perspective on spectacles
When spectacles began to proliferate in the 19th century, some commentators were alarmed. Gemma Almond reveals how the Victorians came to embrace eyewear.
- Article
Cocaine, the Victorian wonder drug
Today, cocaine has a very poor public image as one of the causes of crime and violence. But for the Victorians it was welcomed as the saviour of modern surgery.
- In pictures
Florence Nightingale, Victorian design and the treatment of Covid-19
Discover how the design of Britain’s Nightingale hospitals, set up during the first national lockdown, is based closely on Florence Nightingale’s pioneering ideas for the most effective hospital layout.
Catalogue
- Books
Victorian marriage and the law of matrimonial cruelty / A. James Hammerton.
Hammerton, A. James.Date: 1990- Books
Victorian opium eating : responses to opiate use in nineteenth-century England / Virginia Berridge.
Berridge, Virginia.Date: 1978- Journals
Victorian cancer news.
- Journals
- Online
Victorian literature and culture
Date: 1991-- Books
Victorian Bloomsbury / Rosemary Ashton.
Ashton, Rosemary, 1947-Date: [2012], ©2012
