News

Carmel Mission, founded in 1771, stands as one of California’s most authentic and beautiful Spanish missions. The entire town ...
The Victorian era is one of the most famous periods in all of human history, known for its iconic fashion and love of all things supernatural and paranormal. Many novelists, mangakas, game studios ...
In terms of its history, the Victorian Socialists (VS) derives from a political tendency that broke from the world socialist movement decades ago. It represents, not the working class, but a ...
The backlash to this, known as the Temperance Movement, started to gain traction during the Victorian era. Religious groups and social reformers aimed to combat the issues associated with excessive ...
A time of high unemployment and great hardship among London’s working class led to the 1886 West End Riots, where masses of people took to the streets, smashing storefronts and destroying property.
A Victorian card featuring a Christmas pudding. Alamy Potatoes are used to bulk up the more expensive flour, as a cheap, relatively flavourless base for the stone fruit and spice that characterise ...
Article Addressing the Machine: Victorian Working-Class Poetry and Industrial Machinery Full Text Publisher DOI Details People (1) Projects (1) Files (1) ...
They could lecture working-class women on cleanliness in homes resembling slums, while they relied on servants to keep their own homes up to the required standard. Next Previous Published: 2001-08-09 ...
“Of course, there was some light on the horizon – universal education came in during the 1870s, there were improvements in health and sanitation, and also the introduction of leisure pursuits such as ...
Unions and their affiliates think they can still break through with the Democrats’ worst demographic, white working-class voters, by hustling on the ground. But it has been a slog.