Donna Loftus explores how social change transformed the aspirations of an emerging Victorian middle class and the value this class represented. The image of the nineteenth century as a period of ...

Pornography, S&M, gay "cruising," cross-dressing -- these don't sound like relics of the Victorian ... men were middle or upper middle class and they were attracted to people of the lower classes.

New wealth had trickled into the cities during the Victorian Era and led to a burgeoning middle class says the BBC. Employing a servant became a sign of respectability, even for the lower middle ...

The Victorian era was a confident ... fine tenements for the skilled workers who thought of themselves as lower middle class, and no-frills housing blocks for the labourers.

The Victorian Era was ... working class made up about 70 to 80 percent of the population and got their income from wages, with families usually earning under £100 per year. The middle class ...