'Kill the bugger!' So read one telegram to the Marquess of Queensberry before his legal battle with Oscar Wilde in the spring of 1895. Today's re

Explores the lasting cultural and political impact of this remarkable year. Oscar Wilde's disastrous libel suit against the Marquess of Queensber

"The parlour was the centre of the Victorian home and, as Thad Logan shows, the place where contemporary conflicts about domesticity and gender r

Tea drinking in Victorian England was a pervasive activity that, when seen through the lens of a century's perspective, presents a unique overvie

To understand hatred and civility in today's world, argues Christopher Lane, we should start with Victorian fiction. Although the word ""Victoria