Kate Greenaway’s illustrations from the late 1800s are childhood favourites for many growing up in England. Even if you grew up somewhere else in the world there’s still a chance you will have seen them adorning the pages of a...
1925 advertisment for the Liberty Bodice Image courtesy of Flickr User Louise http://www.catwalkcreativevintage.co.uk As much as I love period dramas, I sometimes think that being a woman in Victorian England would have been, well, mildly...
A girls’ classroom. http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/victorian_britain/victorian_schools/ In Victorian times a girl had few choices when it came to aspirations. The ideal Victorian woman was one who was a housewife and mother‚Äìthe...
