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Illustration of a demon breathing fire with springs on his shoes jumping and scaring two women

Spring-Heeled Jack: the fire-breathing phantom that terrorised Victorian England

A boxing match in A Thousand Blows alongside an illustration of a Victorian boxing ring

A Thousand Blows: the real history behind the Victorian boxing drama

History's Greatest Scandals : The Victorians | A HistoryExtra podcast series

Victorian cricket. (Photo by Getty Images)

Cricket, cocaine and cocoa houses: 5 ways Victorians spent their free time.

Workhouses were meant to be unpleasant. Inmates worked hard (like these women hanging out laundry c1880). (Photo by Sean Sexton/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Victorian daily life: what was it like for 'ordinary' Victorians?

A black and white illustration shows a man in smart clothes slumped in a chair. To the left, a woman in a long skirt and jacket bends over him, taking his pocket watch from him

Victorian Britain's fearless female felons.

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History's Greatest Scandals : The Victorians.

How gruelling was the Victorian workhouse?

Beyond the podcast: Jane Austen

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Beyond the podcast: Nuremberg

This William H. Mumler photograph shows a bearded man seated while a faint female “spirit” appears behind him. Mumler’s images — a blend of portraiture and supposed spirit photography — captivated Victorians eager for proof of the afterlife, even as critics accused him of trickery and photographic manipulation.

Did he photograph the ghost of a president? Meet the scheming Victorian who exploited a grieving America

Week one quiz: Victorian life.

Gustave Doré's famous engraving, produced to illustrate the 1872 book 'London: A Pilgrimage', depicts (and exaggerates) the squalor of tightly packed terraced houses. Yes, as Rosalind Crone observes, the washing lines in Doré's picture demonstrate that "slum-dwellers were not all very dirty - or, at least, they didn't choose to be". (Photo by Getty Images)

Was Victorian life really so grim? 5 reasons why the Victorians were 'happy'.

How to celebrate a Victorian wedding.

Recent HistoryExtra podcasts.

Week six quiz: Victorian life.

In December 1929, investigator and ghost hunter Harry Price demonstrates an electric control device he designed to monitor a medium’s movements during séances. (Photo by Alamy)

When a Victorian ghost hunter investigated Britain’s most haunted house, this is what he found

HistoryExtra AcademyLife in Victorian Britain, with Ruth Goodman.

Manchester dog show, c1909

The surprising history of Victorian dog shows.

Week two quiz: leisure in Victorian Britain.

Living in sin: unmarried relationships in Victorian Britain.

A man helps his partner to dress by lacing her whalebone corset.

Victorian corsetsDangerous or misunderstood?

Dr Martin Luther King Jr speaking before crowd of 25,000 Selma To Montgomery, Alabama civil rights marchers, in front of Montgomery, Alabama state capital building.

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This 1896 portrait shows Andrew Carnegie, the Scottish-American steel magnate whose fortune helped build libraries, universities, and cultural institutions across the English-speaking world.

Skip the office and give your money away: a Victorian billionaire’s guide to financial triumph

Part sixWhat was family life like in Victorian Britain?.

Beyond the podcastThe Gunpowder plot

Week four quiz: medicine and health in Victorian Britain.

Frozen Charlotte dolls: the Victorian Barbie