From 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century, a special issue on the Victorian East End. From Neo-Victorian Studies, a special issue on Visual and Material Culture and/in Neo-Victorianism, including Christine Ferguson (Glasgow): Surface Tensions: Steampunk, Subculture, and the Ideology of Style. England’s booze culture: Binge drinking used to be the height of fashion. The heart of Englishness: A review of The Gentry: Stories of the English by Adam Nicolson. Whose Englishness is it anyway? Anthony Painter on the time for an optimistic Englishness. Patrick Scott on Mrs Windsor’s sixty bloody years. Monarchists are from Mars, republicans are from Venus: If you want proof that there is not one universe but a multitude of parallel worlds, you don’t need any quantum physics — just read the Letters pages of our national newspapers. White trash, vermin, underclass, broken Britain — when Owen Jones published his book Chavs: The Demonisation of the Working Class, he wasn’t expecting such an onslaught. And now for something completely different: Mark Applebaum takes a whimsical look at British manners, and what you need to know about napkins.