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Victorians podcast episodes

Were the Victorians the luckiest people in history?

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

Victorian cricket. (Photo by Getty Images)

Cricket, cocaine and cocoa houses: 5 ways Victorians spent their free time. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

Statue of Queen Victoria with a humorous added cartoon smile and speech bubble reading “We are amused.”

Think the Victorians were prudes? Their filthiest jokes will shock you

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?

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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. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

History's Greatest Scandals : The Victorians. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Beyond the podcast: Nuremberg

Beyond the podcast: Jane Austen

A sketch showing a woman surrounded by men. One man is putting a hood over her head and another is reading from a book next to her

These are four of the most brutal Victorian murders. Were women really the perpetrators?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Beyond the podcast: Pompeii

How gruelling was the Victorian workhouse?

A black and white illustration shows a building on fire, with a woman throwing a young child out of the top window

Humble Victorian heroes: the ordinary Britons who sacrificed their lives for others. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Beyond the podcastMagna Carta

How to celebrate a Victorian wedding. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

Beyond the podcastElizabeth I

Week six quiz: Victorian life. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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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

Week one quiz: Victorian life. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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'. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

HistoryExtra AcademyLife in Victorian Britain, with Ruth Goodman. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

Victorian corsetsDangerous or misunderstood?

A black and white illustration showing two men dressed in dark clothing and hats sitting in a rowing boat. One of them sits halfway in the boat, holding the oars. The other is leant over the front of the boat and is pulling the body of a woman out of the water. Behind them is a bridge with two large arches underneath it

He's the Victorian serial killer you've never heard of – and we may now know who he was. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.