Reddit mentions of The Tichborne Claimant

It's difficult to pick out specific books on such a broad topic, but here are a few of my favourites:

• Judith Walkowitz, City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late Victorian London
  
  
• Lynda Nead, Victorian Babylon: People, Streets and Images in Nineteenth-Century London
  
  
• Rohan McWilliam, The Tichborne Claimant: A Victorian Sensation
  
  Judith Fladers is also pretty fun to read when it comes to social and cultural history - her stuff is aimed at a popular audience (she's a journalist rather than an academic), but it's generally pretty well-researched. She's written books on the Victorian home, leisure, and the period's fascination with murder.
  
  If you're really desperate you could also take a look at my PhD thesis! It's about newspapers, jokes, slang, and transatlantic cultural relations in the nineteenth century. It's available to download free from my blog. I've also got a couple of articles on transatlantic jokes that you might be able to access - links in my profile.