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HistoryExtra Academy video lecture | Victorian life . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Gustave Doré's famous engraving, produced to illustrate the 1872 book 'London: A Pilgrimage', depicts (and exaggerates) the squalor of tightly packed terraced houses. Yes, as Rosalind Crone observes, the washing lines in Doré's picture demonstrate that

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Workhouses were meant to be unpleasant. Inmates worked hard (like these women hanging out laundry c1880). (Photo by Sean Sexton/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Victorian daily life: what was it like for ‘ordinary’ Victorians?

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Reading the runes: what we can learn about everyday life in the Viking Age . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Fragment of a relief showing a baboon apprehending a thief. (Photo by Werner Forman/Universal Images Group/Getty Images)

“Impaled on a stake and left to die”: crime, punishment and law enforcement in ancient Egypt . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A collage showing historical babies. Edward VI as a baby, Edward VIII as a baby, and a depiction of the baby Jesus.

Historical baby names: a guide to baby name trends from the Anglo-Saxons to today

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