This article considers two scandals in France and Britain the late 1880s which effectively ended careers of prominent radical politicians. It highlights role press at a period (1850s-1880s) when political, fiscal technical conditions daily newspapers operated, popular dailies emerged, impact so-called “American” or “new” journalism was debated. The politicians, Charles Dilke Britain, Daniel Wil...

This article examines the reworking of Victorian beauty in visual culture post-war Britain. Although work modernization and reconstruction was regarded as a symbolic break with nineteenth-century past, age continued to haunt nation years following end war, generating its own distinctive fascination beauty. Focusing on an historical melodrama, Pink String Sealing Wax (UK; dir. Robert Hamer, 1945...

Experiences of childhood in colonial New Zealand are difficult to reconstruct from the historical record alone. Many those who came colony were illiterate, and Victorian tendency avoid discussion pregnancy breastfeeding practices restricts our understanding this important period. Bioarchaeological investigation, however, has potential illuminate life stories these first-generation Pākehā (Europ...