London was the center of the Victorian world, so I've assembled a special selection of articles about life in Victorian London here...

Girls' Own Paper - 1881-1882

The North London Collegiate School for Girls

Don't miss the gymnasium picture at the end of this one!

A Sketch of the Children's Incurable Hospital

Girls' Own Paper - 1886-1887

The Romance of the Bank of England, by Emma Brewer

Girls' Own Paper - 1888-1889

A London Art School, by "One of the Pupils"

How Working Girls Live in London, by Nanette Mason

The Strand - 1891

At the Animal Hospital

Celebrating the centennial of the Royal Veterinary College.

At the Children's Hospital

Child Workers in London

"Nothing can be harder or drearier than the life of little servants..."

A Day with an East End Photographer

A look at some of the faces of Victorian London.

The Foundling Hospital

"A story of human wrong, of human suffering..."

The Home for Lost Dogs

How the Blind are Educated, by Edward Salmon

Humours of the Post Office

Reproductions of some curious letters and objects processed through the Royal Mail.

Jamrach's

An eccentric London shop.

The Metropolitan Fire Brigade

A Night with the Thames Police

Old Stone Signs of London

Our Money Manufactury

How money was minted in Victorian times.

A Night in an Opium Den

The Story of the Strand

The street, not the magazine!

Street-Corner Men

Menders, preachers, entertainers, peddlers -- there were a myriad of ways to make a living on the streets of London!

The Street Games of Children, by Frances Low