Through storytelling rather than theory, Dickens revealed how Victorian systems shaped everyday lives. By following individuals through debt, labour, and bureaucracy, he turned fiction into social diagnosis, making the hidden costs of progress visible without explanation or moral instruction.
Victorian Science & Society explores how scientific ideas became woven into everyday life during the nineteenth century, shaping industry, belief, and public debate. As science moved beyond private study into institutions and culture, it transformed how knowledge was produced, shared, and understood.
19th-Century Science describes a period in which scientific inquiry became systematic, institutional, and closely linked to technological change. As experimentation, measurement, and professional standards took hold, science reshaped industry, education, and public understanding in ways that continue to influence modern research.