Signposts: The Victorians

In the second of our occasional series exploring the ways in which topical historical subjects are being tackled in a variety of media, Rohan McWilliam examines a time in Britain’s history that seems to repay frequent revisiting more than a century after it ended.

Rohan McWilliam | Published in History Today
Rohan
McWilliam is Senior Lecturer in History at Anglia Ruskin University,
Cambridge, and the author of The Tichborne Claimant: A Victorian
Sensation (Continuum, 2007).



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