A look at Victorian art from the perspective of the middle-class patron.

This study explores the interplay between money, status, politics and art collecting in the public and private lives of members of the wealthy trading classes i

The public culture of the Victorian middle class looks at the creation of a distinctive "high" culture in the industrial cities of Birmingham, Leeds and Manches

divDomesticity is generally treated as an aspect of women’s history. In this fascinating study of the nineteenth-century middle class, John Tosh shows how pro

For artists of the increasingly mechanized Victorian age, questions about the meaning and value of labour presented a series of urgent problems: Is work a moral