This book gathers together, in one volume, some of the key pieces on Victorian history, society and culture and draws on new trends in looking at the Victorian Age and includes sections on, periodization, politics and consumerism.

Kelly Boyd teaches at the University of London. She edited the Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing (1999) and is the author of Manliness and the Boys' Story Paper in Britain: A Cultural History, 1855-1940 (2003).

Rohan McWilliam is Senior Lecturer in History at Anglia Ruskin University and author of Popular Politics in Nineteenth-Century England (1998) and The Tichborne Claimant: A Victorian Sensation (2007).

1. Rethinking the Victorians 2. Periodization 3. Economy 4. Consumerism and Material Culture 5. Society and Class 6. Space 7. Politics High and Low 8. Morality 9. Intellectual History 10. Religion 11. Science 12. Gender 13. Sexuality 14. Monarchy 15. Race, Empire and National Identity