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Fanny and Stella: The Young Men Who Shocked Victorian England by Neil McKenna

To be decadent in an age of utility was...
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Inconvenient People: Lunacy, Liberty and the Mad-Doctors in Victorian England

The trouble with reading a lot of Victorian...
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Capturing the Light: The Birth of Photography by Roger Watson and Helen Rappaport

Anyone who has developed their own photographs...
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Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary

Having led an unexpectedly irreligious life for a...
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No Place for Ladies: The Untold Story of Women in the Crimean War by Helen Rappaport

As Russophobia gripped Britain, the outbreak of...
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