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Having a Victorian Christmas is a popular way to celebrate the holiday. This article gives ideas for food, decorations, gifts, cards, and games for a Victorian Christmas.

Find out how to create an updated Victorian style decor in your living room. Here are top tips on everything from geometric floor tiles to stained glass windows.

Victorian sensation novels allowed readers to examine society's ugly underbelly from a safe distance.

Often used as a symbol of mourning, sentiment or friendship, hair ornaments had great appeal to the Victorians.

Participation in leisure activities during Queen Victoria's reign increased as more free time became available due to shortened working hours.

Wedding themes are increasingly popular, and having a Victorian-themed wedding may be of interest to some couples. This article offers ideas for a Victorian wedding.

Alexis Soyer was chef to the aristocracy of Victorian London. But he also set up soup kitchens during the Irish Famine and organised the hospital kitchens of the Crimea.

Bathrooms are fun places to express a steampunk aesthetic, and the small space lends itself to Victorian crowded home decorating principles.

The neo-Victorian steampunk aesthetic can be applied to interior design as well as clothing and accessories. These principles can form the basis of a steampunk home.

Victorian girls were encouraged to excel in all arts and handicrafts. Embroidery, needlework and sewing would help them to become cultured young ladies.

The Victorian era influenced a wide range of design disciplines such as architecture, clothing, exterior and interior decorating.

The Victorian domestic servant had a gruelling and exhausing life comprising of long hours filled with demanding physical labour and very little time off.

The Victorians began the Christmas traditions of a Christmas tree and a kissing ball; the use of Winter berries, such as Holly, were also popular Victorian traditions.

Drawing inspiration from Dickens' drawing room on display in the Charles Dickens House Museum in London, here is how to recreate a Victorian historic interior.

The Victorian view of death was quite different than our modern perception and this was reflected in their funeral practices.

Bringing life back to a Victorian home is worth the effort. Read more about Victorian paint colors and other ways to restore your painted lady.

True Victorian paint colors give authenticity to a 19th century home. Here are some tips for choosing authentic exterior paint color schemes for old or new Victorians.

For anyone who love the traditional aspects of the holiday season, a Victorian style Christmas tree is a must. Here are some helpful hints of how to get the look.

The paper chain, a Victorian's children's decoration, is still a fun activity for children and adults alike.

Victorian naturalist decorating is based on the 18th-century obsession with observing, cataloguing and categorising nature. Steampunk adds retro-futuristic elements.

Are you interested in painting an interior room of your Victorian house in appropriate historical colors? Here are some tips for choosing the right shades.

Although sensational elements of Corelli's text, such as sex and money, were key plot points, Corelli's depiction of the London literary scene is just as provocative.

Victorian Christmases were lavish, sumptuous affairs. Use the principles of Victorian Christmas decorating and add a steampunk twist for a uniquely beautiful home.

The White Man's Burden is a layered poem in many ways; it represents numerous elements of late Victorian sensation and hints at the future of the empire.

Many expressions and great quotes still in use today go back in time to the strict and moralizing Victorians.

Published in 2006, After the Victorians is a sublime follow up to A N Wilson's critically acclaimed portrait of the Victorian age.

Well known in the UK for his antagonistic interviews with recalcitrant politicians, journalist Jeremy Paxman reveals his in-depth knowledge of Victorian art.

In this highly acclaimed book, Wilson presents a dazzling array of facts, details and anecdotes that portray the 19th Century in a refreshingly interesting light.

An exhibition of anatomical models and health-related items from the early 18th, 19th and 20th Centuries reveals Victorian attitudes to health, disease, death and morals.

Most items from the Victorian period are easily found at auctions and in antique shops, so it's not difficult to find items to fill the parlor of an old house.

Spend a day in Victorian Square in downtown Sparks, Nevada, you'll find several casinos and much more to keep you entertained.

News that the British government is planning to build a new high-speed rail line between London and Scotland recalls a great speed contests of the steam railway age.

The Victorian era was full of frills, lace, and silhouettes. Combine them with the practicality of denim for something truly special.

Celebrate Christmas with a traditional Victorian tree ornament, an elegant paper cone that doubles as a small gift holder.

Instructions on how to make a vintage gift box from recycled cards. This traditional Victorian craft and hobby turns old cards into original gift containers.

Brief historical notes of the most popular Christmas Victorian Carols that include Silent Night, The First Noël, The Wassail Song, and God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen.

Christmas carols were reinvented in the 19th century, regarded as a Victorian phenomenon. Songs include the famous Silent Night and The First Noel.

This collection of essays will appeal to Social Historians, Victorian Studies scholars and those with a general interest in the history of psychiatry.

Continue a Victorian tradition and teach children writing with Consequences, a family word game.

Antique kitchenware made of wood, metal and ceramics has historical and monetary value. However, some items have endured as practical cookware in modern times

The world's first train stations are surrounded by, or are themselves, works of art. Walk a city centre station loop for public art, grand architecture, and history.

Richard Dadd is best known for his fairy paintings, but his facinating work encompasses so much more.

Armadale is an exciting, complex Victorian novel that examines the role of women, marriage and the individual.

Restoring a Painted Lady or Victorian house can be a fun and exciting project. A Victorian home can be restored to the original color scheme or take on a whole new look

Walk by historic homes in San Francisco as Jay Gifford and his tour guides tell stories on Victorian Home Walks walking tours, get some exercise and shoot photo images.

One of the most familiar stories from childhood is that of 'Black Beauty'. The story gives an insight into the cruelty endured by many horses in Victorian Britain.

Atkinson Grimshaw is remembered for moonlit cityscapes. His works represent contradictions between Victorian industrialisation and a Romantic longing for times past.

Carlo Gatti, Italian Swiss immigrant, arrived penniless at Dover. His natural talent for business strategy, marketing and business innovation made him a rich man.

The poet Caroline Norton campaigned for a change in the law following the breakdown of her marriage and the refusal of her husband to grant her access to her children.

Born in Portsmouth, England, the work of the Victorian writer Charles Dickens is still relevant, as the number of film and stage adaptations of his work testifiy.