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Unbuilt London: Victorian plans to encircle London with a Crystalline Railway
Imagine if you will the Crystal Palace in all its glory – but rather than a single impressive building in Hyde Park, or later down in Sydenham bend your imagination to thoughts of the grandest of grand...
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Unbuilt London: The railway in the middle of the Thames
Imagine if you will, a city straining to cope with a growing population and a transport network barely able to keep up. Lots of plans are submitted for new railway schemes to deal with the bottleneck,...
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Victorian London’s double-decked cable cars
Plans for a cable car in London are as old as Victorian inventiveness — for example, this double-decker cable car which would have run from Monument in the City over to Hyde Park Corner. Very sadly,...
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How Victorian London invented the modern domestic pet dog
Dogs have been companions to humans for tens of thousands of years. In a new book, Dr Philip Howell argues that it was the Victorians who ‘invented’ the modern dog with a place at the heart of the...
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Photos of Victorian London from a hot air balloon
Rare photographs of Victorian London taken from a hot air balloon have been shown off ahead of an auction. Hot air balloonist-photographer Cecil Victor Shadbolt took the photos around 1882-1892 for a...
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Tickets Alert: Visit a Victorian Gaol
It’s outside London, but close enough, and there is a chance to go inside a Victorian era jail, and come out again. HM Prison Reading, formerly known as Reading Gaol, was built in 1844 and despite its...
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There will be fun at the British Library with Victorian Entertainments
Roll up, roll up, be amazed and astonished, magic to astound, entertainments to delight, all the fun of the Victorian music hall and stage. A display space filled with the opulent reds of the...
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A Victorian Bath House surrounded by glass and steel
Just around the corner from Liverpool Street Station, in a space surrounded by modern offices, can be found this Turkish inspired Victorian bath house. There has been a bath of one sort or another on...
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How steam trains drove Victorians to acts of madness
The newly invented steam train, traveling so fast and far were blamed for triggering dark desires in men, driving them to insane acts of violence. The rocking motion of the trains, and their incredible...
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Queen Victoria as seen on screen at the BFI
One of a number of attempts to jump on the QV200 anniversary, the BFI has taken a look back at the black and white queen as seen on the silver screen. Her appearance in celluloid format came...
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