Top Victorian Blog Posts

Dickensian London

Dickens started to write Oliver Twist in 1837, the same year the Victorian era began, when the Anti-Poor Law agitations had reached their peak. He was a fierce critic of the poverty and social layering of Victorian society. Read more

Victorian London in Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist is a novel all about the gritty realism of everyday life in London. Many of Dickens’ contemporary critics and reading public feared that novels could be too realistic, and that naïve readers (often female readers) wouldn't be able to tell the difference between fiction and reality. Read more

Music Halls and Cinemas of Holloway Road

Most people think of the Seven Sisters and Holloway Roads as two nondescript traffic choked roads with nothing to detain them on their way in and out of town. Nothing could be further from the truth. Read more

The Lost Euston Station Arch

Euston railway station, also known as London Euston is a central London railway terminus in the London Borough of Camden and is the sixth busiest rail terminal in London (by entries and exits). Euston Station is now the subject of a major redevelopment plan as the high speed line HS2 will start from here. Read more

Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood - an Intro

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was an organised group founded in September 1848, a Victorian world filled with dramatic technological and social change. The Brotherhood met for five years at 7 Gower Street, London where there is now an English Heritage blue plaque. Read more

London History Timeline

A break down as to the history of London including the Kings and Queens of England. I have tried to join interesting pieces of information together and used themes accordingly. Discover more

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