Late nineteenth-century Britain experienced an unprecedented explosion of visual print culture and a simultaneous rise in literacy across social classes. New pr

The Victorian illustrated book came into being, flourished, and evolved during the long nineteenth century. While existing scholarship on Victorian illustrators

"Suppose that everything we think we know about the Victorians is wrong." So begins Inventing the Victorians by Matthew Sweet, a compact and mind-bending whirlw

Presents paintings and sketches by the Queen, along with a narrative text drawn in part from her journals.

Richly illustrated study drawing on art, literature and science to explore Victorian attitudes towards sight.