The best-loved of Britain's novelists penned a tale that struck a potent chord in the popular revival of the season of goodwill. Geoffrey Rowell explains its appeal and its powerful religious and social overtones.
John Black considers how the Victorians got away from privatising prisons.
Peter Atkins finds that though we might be considering toll roads, the Victorians were glad to get rid of them.
Sarah Pepper investigates a medical pioneer whose name survives today on a bread wrapper, but whose sweeping system of wholefoods and natural prescriptions offended the medical establishment of late Victorian England.
Ian Bradley looks at what qualified as family favourites in the last decade of the nineteenth century.
A Rosemary O'Day on imagining you're Erasmus and ways of seeing 1450-1600.
Stephen Jones on Victorian things, trends and fashions.
John Springhall on violence in the 19th-century media
