Tag: Victorians

  • Virtual History?

    Virtual History?

    By Patrick McGhee | @patricksmcg Computer and video gaming is now firmly a part of cultural, political and economic discourse. The financial and cultural power of video games is beyond dispute. The video games market will soon be worth $100bn and video games are played together by millions of people connected around the world. Gaming…

  • Gossip, men, and Victorian politics

    Gossip, men, and Victorian politics

    By Cherish Watton (@CherishWatton) Gossip in politics today brings to mind the political rumour-mill from the fallout of Brexit, political infighting, or frequent leaks from the White House criticising the Trump administration. But gossip, the ability ‘to talk idly, mostly about other people’s affairs’, isn’t unique to twenty-first-century politics.[1] In the Victorian period, it could…