Martin Hewitt is a historian of Britain in the long-nineteenth century. During an academic career which involved work at several universities, most recently Anglia Ruskin University, where he was Dean of Arts, Law and Social Sciences, he has published widely on urban history, working-class radicalism, life-writing, the press and the platform. He was the founding editor of the Journal of Victorian Culture and the first secretary of the British Association for Victorian Studies, and from 2020-23 was Belcher Visiting Fellow in Victorian Studies at St Hugh's College, Oxford.

Hewitt's extraordinarily insightful apprehension of the Victorians' complexity draws on a multitude of examples, but the density of his prose and the brevity of the text requires a fairly thorough understanding of Victorian England before coming to this book to extract all the rich insights and sagacity. Paired with a general text on Victorian England, this short volume would raise the questions students at any level need to address to understand what historians do. The further reading section provides a brief but rich list of the best sources on the subject.

• Acknowledgements Introduction 1: The Victorians in retrospect 2: The Victorian as period 3: Victorianism 4: Victorian configurations 5: Eminent Victorians 6: The Victorian world Further Reading References

Martin Hewitt is a historian of Britain in the long-nineteenth century. During an academic career which involved work at several universities, most recently Anglia Ruskin University, where he was Dean of Arts, Law and Social Sciences, he has published widely on urban history, working-class radicalism, life-writing, the press and the platform. He was the founding editor of the Journal of Victorian Culture and the first secretary of the British Association for Victorian Studies, and from 2020-23 was Belcher Visiting Fellow in Victorian Studies at St Hugh's College, Oxford.

Hewitt's extraordinarily insightful apprehension of the Victorians' complexity draws on a multitude of examples, but the density of his prose and the brevity of the text requires a fairly thorough understanding of Victorian England before coming to this book to extract all the rich insights and sagacity. Paired with a general text on Victorian England, this short volume would raise the questions students at any level need to address to understand what historians do. The further reading section provides a brief but rich list of the best sources on the subject.

• Acknowledgements Introduction 1: The Victorians in retrospect 2: The Victorian as period 3: Victorianism 4: Victorian configurations 5: Eminent Victorians 6: The Victorian world Further Reading References