Table of Contents

T C Smout: Introduction
Raphael Samuel: Mrs Thatcher's Return to Victorian Values
R J Morris: Victorian Values in Scotland and England
M Girouard: Victorian Values and the Upper Classes
Stewart J Brown: Thomas Chalmers and the Communal Ideal in Victorian Scotland
Clyde Binfield: 'I suppose you are not a Baptist or a Roman Catholic?': Nonconformity's True Conformity
Valentine Cunningham: Goodness and Goods: Victorian Literature and Values for the Middle Class Reader
Peter J Bowler: Darwinism and Victorian Values: Threat or Opportunity
W F Bynum: Medical Values in a Commercial Age
J Harris: Victorian Values and the Founders of the Welfare State
M A Crowther: The Workhouse
Anne Digby: Victorian Values and Women and Public and Private
A J P Kenny: Some Concluding Thoughts

About the Author

Christopher Smout is Historiographer Royal in Scotland and Emeritus Professor of Scottish History at the University of St Andrews. He has written widely on Scottish economic, social and demographic history, and since the mid 1990s has been much concerned with environmental history. 'He was the first deputy chairman of Scottish Natural Heritage in the 1990s'. Mairi Stewart is an environmental historian specialising in Scottish woodland history. She joined the staff of the UHI Centre for History in 2005 and is currently working on a four-year research project dealing with the social history of twentieth-century Scottish forestry.