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|title= Strange Victoriana: Tales of the Curious, the Weird and the Uncanny from Our Victorian Ancestors

|author=Jan Bondeson

|date=August 2016

|isbn=978-1445658858

The Victorians, not surprisingly, had their own tabloid press. The most successful title of this nature was the 'Illustrated Police News', a weekly journal first published in 1864 and lasting seventy-four years. Not to be confused with the more upmarket 'Illustrated London News', its main stock-in-trade was weird, far-fetched but not always necessarily true stories from Victorian life, generally in Britain but sometimes in Europe as well. This book is based on a recently-discovered archive of the paper. Prepare to be amazed, enthralled, sometimes horrified, occasionally amused – and once or twice, understandably disbelieving.