The Battle of Trafalgar, the first FA Cup Final, Jack the Ripper, the construction of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, Queen Victoria’s 63-year reign… Now you can read about the news and events of the Victorian era, on a budget, with vintage newspapers!

Lowly-priced yet highly valuable, Victorian newspapers – otherwise called antique newspapers or simply vintage newspapers – offer anyone a rare opportunity to get an item of history, looking back at how our ancestors lived. You can find these special papers online from around £4.99.

No TV, no technology, no central heating, no cars (until the last few years of Victoria’s reign). No air travel – if you went up in a balloon! Child-bearing could be treacherous, and many women died in childbirth. Countless babies also died from childhood diseases.

The 19th century was a period you could be hanged for over 200 offences. Worse still, the execution was performed in front of large crowds who were at the least allowed to be defer by the spectacle, but who, probably, went for the morbid thrill and the carnival atmosphere that typically surrounded such events. pool result It wasn’t until 1868 this terrible death sentence was banned from being performed publically.

Newspapers represent our culture in a silly way. Victorian newspaper articles expose how 19th century Britain was transformed by the industrial revolution. A prosperous Britain gained a respected world position. Industries boomed and the British Empire gained power over one quarter of the world’s population.

Victorian times newspapers cover a period of time when Britain went from as an undeveloped society to a global industrial and military superpower. Read about the industrial revolution, as reported at the time, where there is an unprecedented demand for girls and child labour.

If you have children, imagine living in a day and age where they certainly were built to benefit as long as 12 hours, every day and everyday, in a factory or down the mines? It absolutely was a period when streets were unpaved and unlit, without drains. People threw dirty water into the streets until stagnant pools formed.

Toilets were usually cesspits, that have been seldom emptied and sometimes overflowed. Urine often seeped through the bottom into wells from which people drew drinking water. And if you were fortunate to really have a toilet, you’d probably have to fairly share it between several houses, and get standing in a long queue on a Sunday morning.

Given these filthy conditions, it’s no real surprise there were outbreaks of cholera in numerous towns. In cities like Liverpool, families often lived in cellars, that have been damp and poorly ventilated, not to mention crowded. Poorer people slept on straw simply because they couldn’t afford beds.

Victorian era newspapers reveal how folks in the 19th century viewed everyday events and provide a breathtaking insight into life as it used to be. From the Battle of Waterloo, to the Great Exhibition of 1851, to the opening of the Suez Canal, old newspapers amply represent the iconic historical events of a momentous bygone age. So continue; get stuck in!