Step into Victorian England like never before—where history moves, colors bloom, and the past comes alive.

Historian Ruth Goodman explores the Ragged school movement, the social mobility that schooling offered, and how the classroom was a different experience depending on whether you were a boy or a girl.

If you're longing for Christmas gone by then join historian Dr Serena Dyer as she tries out five Victorian Christmas crafts, all taken from historical magazines. They are all very simple, and easy to make yourself! Step this way for some Dickensian Christ...

So what is Figgy Pudding? Everyone sings about it in the Christmas song "We wish you a Merry Christmas" Darren shares the Royal Figgy Pudding recipe that he made at Buckingham Palace for The Queen.

When Queen Victoria stepped onto the throne of Great Britain and Ireland in 1837, gone were the days when the monarch had supreme authority over the kingdom.

Mary Ann Cotton, hanged in Durham in 1873, was a Victorian Black Widow. Killing for greed, she murdered husbands, stepchildren, her mother and even her own children.

The 1800s aren’t usually remembered through sound. While Photographs allow us to see this century more vividly than any before it, the stern-faced Victorians stare back at us in silence from their portraits.

After witnessing the horrors of the Crimean War firsthand, Florence Nightingale set out to transform the field of nursing.

Joan Shenton speaks to Mrs. Florence Pannel born in 1868 (108 years old at the time of the interview in 1977) about life for women in Victorian times, and also what it was like setting up a Beauty care business during those times including her life in Par...

British author Beatrix Potter wrote and illustrated more than 20 children's books starring Peter Rabbit, Jemima Puddle-Duck and Benjamin Bunny.

Introducing Mr Lincoln, Butler at Audley End House. Join him to discover how the staff are preparing for Christmas. Learn the correct way to serve dinner to Lord and Lady Braybrooke and their guests during the festive season.

The Victorians popularized many of the Christmas traditions we still enjoy today and they loved decorating their homes during the festive season.

Believe it or not, before the Victorians, people in Britain hardly even celebrated Christmas. They created many traditions that we still continue today.

Queen Victoria is for many, synonymous with the notion of afternoon tea, probably because the social ceremony became properly established during the later years of her reign.

A rich boiled pudding made with flour, suet, figs, and other dried fruit, traditionally eaten at Christmas.