The Fire at the Houses of Parliament
In 1834 the home of British politics was destroyed on a dramatic autumnal night
19th Century
A collection of 41 Posts
Cherry the Pioneering Dog
Paul Koudounaris traces the modern tradition of pet commemoration back to its roots in Victorian England
Why Are We Drawn to Mountains?
George Mallory, one of the central figures in the history of mountaineering, was haunted by this simple question, as the author Daniel Light explains
From the Boy Who Never Grew Up to the Woman Who Lived with the Dead
Judith Flanders turns her attention on the Victorians' peculiar obsession with dying
A Photographic Portrait of Frederick Douglass (1879)
How the most photographed man in America harnessed the portrait as a political tool
The Oxford English Dictionary with Sarah Ogilvie
Sarah Ogilvie on the personalities behind the pages
The World’s Biggest Prison in the Middle of Nowhere
Nick Guyatt explores an 19th century tragedy in Britain's most terrifying prison