Orphan turned slave turned explorer, Florence Baker's life could have been ripped straight from the pages of a Victorian ...

Pass the mince pies, will you? Flushed with success, the Victorians solved the Great Stink caused by chamber pots and other unsanitary arrangements by creating the water closet. Pull the chain ...

John Ruskin was one of the great Victorians established while still young as an arbiter of taste in painting and architecture and as one of the greatest of all writers of English prose. When he was ...

Scherrikar Bell: This great showman astounded the Victorians and even inspired a song by the Beatles. Pablo's travelling circus was amongst the most famous of the Victorian age. His shows pulled ...

Investors could fund the creation of Victorian forests under a radical plan hatched by conservationists. Advocates for the ...