In May of 1857 soldiers of the Bengal Army shot their British officers and marched on Delhi. The mutiny encouraged several other parts of India to rebel as well and soon the British presence in India was considerably reduced until forces were able to launch offenses that helped restore Imperial power in 1858. The Indians rebelled in large part because their way of life, customs, and religions were all largely being disregarded by their British rulers which they found depply offensive.

In 1861 the Book of Household Management was published by Isabella Beeton. This book was ultimately and precisely used as a cookbook and a guide for the middle-class domestic housewife. This cookbook was both a book full of recipes along with guidelines on how to manage "servants, children, dinner parties, clothing and furnighings" (Zlotnick). This book was perfect for your every day middle-class house wife in the Victorian Era. In regard to its publication, Susan Zlotnick wrote an essay in which she talked about this esteemed book.

Automatic writing is a pyschic ability that many claim allows them to produce written words without the act of actually writing. These written words are claimed to come from a supernatural, spiritual, or a subconscious source. Automatic writing, and other trance utterings, is what fills the pages of the Cross-correspondence scripts made by the Society of Psychical Reasearch (SPR). The scripts were supposed accounts of intelligible messages from beyond the grave or from teleapathy.

The Dangerous Drugs Act of 1920 was an Act which set out to control the import, export, distribution, and possession of drugs within the United Kingdom. Before this Act, drugs such as heroin, opium, cocaine, and morphine were used for medical and recreational use. Because these drugs were used so widely and without proper doses, it lead to multiple accounts of drug addiction. Drug addiction in the early 19th century was thought of as a disease.