Right Up the Empire

Prim and proper Victorian illustrations paired with hilariously bawdy innuendos

 
The Victorians have a reputation for being proper and prudish, but this book paints a hilarious alternative picture. Strait-laced illustrations from nineteenth-century magazines paired with raunchy innuendo suggest they always had enough lead in their pencils. This rude romp through the naughty secrets of the British Empire proves it wasn’t only the British upper lip that was stiff.