Victorian Britain
Public Lives: Women, Family and Society in Victorian Britain
... Public Lives: Women, Family and Society in Victorian Britain by Eleanor Gordon and Gwyneth Nair is a meticulously researched study of the lives of middle-class families in Glasgow. In particular, they focus ...
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The Irish in Victorian Britain: the Local Dimension
... in Britain, the Irish have received relatively little attention within British social history or indeed the sociology of migration, race and ...in Victorian Britain has been addressed in two previous ...
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Empire of culture : contemporary British and Japanese imaginings of Victorian Britain
... in Victorian Britain draw the reader’s attention to Japanese popular culture production in the late twentieth and early twenty-first ...and Britain, has in recent years inspired the emergence and ...
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Environmental law making public opinion in Victorian Britain: The cross currents of Bentham's and Coleridge's ideas
... in Victorian Britain was quite effective in tackling formative industrial environmental ...that Victorian-era environmental laws support Dicey‟s thesis of ideas-driven legal ...
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Why do we measure mankind? : marketing anthropometry in late Victorian Britain
... Despite his spirited marketing of measurement in all its forms, Roberts would constantly have to temper his aspirations for anthropometry given its low visibility in late-Victorian Britain. His letters to ...
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Historicism and the Human Sciences in Victorian Britain
... of Victorian ‘science’ have long preoccupied ...of Victorian Britain through the lens of the ‘human sciences’ might generate fresh insights, as well as clarify the tangled prehistories of its ...
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An English Chautauqua: the National Home Reading Union and the development of rational holidays in late Victorian Britain
... (Dundee Courier and Argus, 1898) and in 1899 at Saltburn (North Eastern Daily Gazette, 1899a; Northern Echo, 1899). Though broadly non-conformist, these gatherings retained a strong association with Congregationalism, ...
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Purchase, use and adaptation: interpreting ‘patented’ aids to the deaf in Victorian Britain
... use. Victorian aids to hearing might involve dressing to hear, but were also selected for purpose and had to be fit to use: maintained both as an aid, and within the context of life as it was ...
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Operations Without Pain: The Practice and Science of Anaesthesia in Victorian Britain
... Snow comments that historians have failed to tackle the commonest of the FAQs about the history of anaesthesia: why neither Davy nor his contemporaries pursued his suggestion that nitrou[r] ...
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The rites of man: The British Museum and the sexual imagination in Victorian Britain
... Catholic moral panic led to claims that the public displays of the British Museum were saturated with morally dangerous material. Although I cannot and do not claim that this was a mainstream view, I do use this tract to ...
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Man is not a meat-eating animal : vegetarians and evolution in late-victorian Britain
... Cat”). Victorian readers would have been amused by the notion of a cucumber-eating kitty, but they may have also enjoyed the tale as part of a long-running satire on the absurdities of the vegetarian ...
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The spectacle of security: lock-picking competitions and the security industry in mid-Victorian Britain
... in Britain as a representative of the American lock-making firm Day & Newell, before rising to international acclaim by picking two locks previously considered inviolable: Chubb & Son ’s ‘detector lock ’ , ...
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The Invention of Altruism Making Moral Meanings in Victorian Britain
... Sidgwick, who engaged critically with Comte’s work. Newton Hall, the positivists' meeting hall in central London, is the setting for chapter three, on ‘Death and Immortality’: it was there, on the last day of 1883, that ...
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Queen Victoria, Prince Albert and the patronage of contemporary sculpture in Victorian Britain 1837 1901
... It is hardly coincidental that the image was published less than a month after the July Monarchy had been toppled in Paris, at the point when revolutionary fervour appeared to be spreading and threatening the existence ...
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The Dawn of the Cheap Press in Victorian Britain: The End of the 'Taxes on Knowledge', 1849 1869
... By 1869 the Star offered little that was distinctive. Its pages were filled with the normal small change of the Victorian press, speeches, lectures, along with a diet of middle class frauds and swindles, murders ...
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Tom Brown’s schooldays: ‘sportsex’ in Victorian Britain
... Games soon came to be seen as a means to counter the ‘sex problem’ in schools. The argument was that if boys could be kept physically exhausted and diverted through sport then they would be too tired to get up to sexual ...
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Amusements of the people : the provision of recreation in Leicester, 1850 1914
... Samuel, Raphael 'The Workshop of the World: Steam Power and Hand Technology in mid-Victorian Britain', History Workshop Journal no.3, Spring 1977 Sandiford, Keith A.P., 'Cricket and Vict[r] ...
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‘Slap on! Slap ever!’: Victorian pantomime, gender variance, and cross dressing
... The Era found the ugly sisters in this pro - duction were funny without vulgarity, but considered that Leno was simply irresistible, giving a performance that was ‘not a carica - ture, but a genuine, if highly eccentric, ...
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Towards an idiosyncratic calligraphic vision in painting
... The Victorian Nude: Morality and Art in 19th Century Britain, Tate Gallery Travelling Exhibition, Kobe City Museum May 2003 The World of Claude Monet - Nagoya Boston Museum o f Fine Arts[r] ...
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The measurement of economic and labour market conditions in the late Victorian and Edwardian periods and the use of data from the co operative movement of Great Britain
... The measurement o f economic and labour market conditions in the late Victorian and Edwardian periods and the use o f data from the Co operative Movement o f Great Britain Patrick Searles Economic His[.] ...
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