* Jonathan Parry, The Rise and Fall of Liberal Government in Victorian Britain.

By the Victorian era, ballad had come to mean any sentimental popular song, especially so-called " royalty ballads ", which publishers would pay popular singers to perform in Britain and the United States in " ballad concerts.

Following the bird's extinction, remains of the Great Auk increased dramatically in value, and auctions of specimens created intense interest in Victorian Britain, where 15 specimens are now located, the largest number of any country.

Working with the sculptor William Leslie, and later Sidney Field, granite memorials became a major status symbol in Victorian Britain.

By the mid 1890s, the Golden Dawn was well established in Great Britain, with membership rising to over a hundred and including every class of Victorian society.

* Wohl, Anthony S. Endangered Lives: Public Health in Victorian Britain ( 1983 ).

According to this viewpoint, International English is a concept of English that minimises the aspects defined by either the colonial imperialism of Victorian Britain or the so-called " cultural imperialism " of the 20th century United States.

This stabilizing synthesis of the Realist political and Romantic aesthetic ideology, was called by various names: in Great Britain it is the Victorian era.

Amongst those who followed these ideas were the English poets and painters that constituted the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, who, from about 1850, opposed the dominant trend of industrial Victorian England, because of their " opposition to technical skill without inspiration " They were influenced by the writings of the art critic John Ruskin ( 1819 – 1900 ), who had strong feelings about the role of art in helping to improve the lives of the urban working classes, in the rapidly expanding industrial cities of Britain.

The 19th century saw a surge of interest in Germanic paganism with the Viking revival in Victorian Britain and Scandinavia.

Is it possible to use the term " Victorian " outside of Britain?

Before his appointment to lead the Discovery Expedition, Scott had followed the conventional career of a naval officer in peacetime Victorian Britain, where opportunities for career advancement were both limited and keenly sought after by ambitious officers.

It involves a setting where steam power is widely used — whether in an alternative history such as Victorian era Britain or " Wild West "- era United States, or in a post-apocalyptic time — that incorporates elements of either science fiction or fantasy.

Victorian Britain, like the periods before it, was interested in literature ( see Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle and William Makepeace Thackeray ), theatre and the arts ( see Aesthetic movement and Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood ), and music, drama, and opera were widely attended.

Politics and Empire in Victorian Britain: A Reader.

In Victorian Britain, some writers such as Robert Knox,

People began to prepare the fruit and spice filling months before it was required, storing it in jars, and as Great Britain entered the Victorian age, the addition of meat had, for many, become an afterthought ( although the use of suet remains ).

The New Atlantans, including the Hackworths and the Finkle-McGraws, have adopted the manners and beliefs of Victorian Britain ; certain residents of erstwhile China, notably Dr. X and Judge Fang, follow the precepts of Confucius.

Perhaps one of the most popular national heroes of the late 19th century in Victorian Britain, Livingstone had a mythic status, which operated on a number of interconnected levels: that of Protestant missionary martyr, that of working-class " rags to riches " inspirational story, that of scientific investigator and explorer, that of imperial reformer, anti-slavery crusader, and advocate of commercial empire.

The association with Christmas, however, more probably arises from the fact that postmen in Victorian Britain wore red uniforms and were nicknamed " Robin "; the Robin featured on the Christmas card is an emblem of the postman delivering the card.

Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management contains recipes for roast pigeon and pigeon pie, a popular inexpensive food in Victorian industrial Britain.

In classical drama, for example, the role of the chorus was to comment on the proceedings and draw out a message for the audience to take away with them ; while the novels of Charles Dickens are a vehicle for morals regarding the social and economic system of Victorian Britain.

The book was written and published in early Victorian era Britain when it was experiencing a nostalgic interest in its forgotten Christmas traditions, and at the time when new customs such as the Christmas tree and greeting cards were being introduced.

In the Victorian era, during the British Raj, Britain first started borrowing Indian dishes, creating Anglo-Indian cuisine.

Its portrayal of vampirism as a disease ( contagious demonic possession ), with its undertones of sex, blood, and death, struck a chord in a Victorian Britain where tuberculosis and syphilis were common.

The Victorian era was the period of Queen Victoria's rule between 1837 and 1901 which signified the height of the British Industrial Revolution and the apex of the British Empire.

The Victorian era of British history was the period of Queen Victoria's reign from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901.

* Victorian architecture 1837 and 1901 UK

In the middle 19th century, a nostalgic interest in pre-Cromwell Christmas traditions swept Victorian England following the publications of Davies Gilbert's Some Ancient Christmas Carols ( 1822 ), William B. Sandys's Selection of Christmas Carols, Ancient and Modern ( 1833 ), and Thomas K. Hervey's The Book of Christmas ( 1837 ).

Victorian fashion comprises the various fashions and trends in British culture that emerged and grew in province throughout the Victorian era and the reign of Queen Victoria, a period which would last from June 1837 to January 1901.

If Regency era is being used to describe the transition between Georgian and Victorian eras, the focus is on the pre-Victorian period from 1811, when the formal Regency began, through 1837 when Queen Victoria succeeded William IV.

Here it refers to novels written during the Romantic era in literary history, which runs from the late 18th century until the beginning of the Victorian era in 1837.

It was in the Victorian era ( 1837 – 1901 ) that the novel became the leading literary genre in English.

During the Victorian era a lot of new buildings and industry were established, such as Independent Chapel ( 1822 ), Holy Trinity ( 1836 – 37 ), Christ Church ( 1837 ), Castle Railway Station ( 1846 ), Wesleyan Chapel ( 1846 ), The Corn Exchange ( 1848 ), Methodist New Connexion Chapel ( 1848 ), W. N.

By the beginning of the Victorian period in 1837, the majority of Neolithic standing stones at Avebury had gone, having been either buried by pious locals in the 14th century or smashed up for building materials in the 17th and 18th.

In English, as a descriptor of anti-intellectualism, philistine — a person deficient in the culture of the Liberal Arts — was common British usage by the decade of 1820, which described the bourgeois, merchant middle class of the Victorian Era ( 1837 – 1901 ), whose wealth rendered them indifferent to culture.

St. Andrews is the birthplace of Thomas Storrow Brown, a businessman, journalist, and an officer of the 1837 Rebellion and Victorian artist Edward Mitchell Bannister.

Victorian morality is a distillation of the moral views of people living at the time of Queen Victoria's reign ( 1837 – 1901 ) and of the moral climate of the United Kingdom throughout the 19th century in general, which contrasted greatly with the morality of the previous Georgian period.

*** Victorian era ( 1837 – 1901 )

* Goldthorpe, Caroline: From Queen to Empress: Victorian Dress 1837 – 1877, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1988, ISBN 0-87099-535-9

* Goldthorpe, Caroline: From Queen to Empress: Victorian Dress 1837 – 1877, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1988, ISBN 0-87099-535-9

* Goldthorpe, Caroline: From Queen to Empress: Victorian Dress 1837 – 1877, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1988, ISBN 0-87099-535-9

As an editor he put forth a volume of Cameos from Walter Savage Landor ( with Thomas Bailey Aldrich, 1874 ); a large Library of ( selections from ) American Literature ( with Ellen M Hutchinson, 11 vols, 1888 – 1890 ); a Victorian Anthology ( 1895 ); and an American Anthology, 1787-1899 ( 1900 ); the two last-named volumes being ancillary to a detailed and comprehensive critical study in prose of the whole body of English poetry from 1837, and of American poetry of the 19th century.

* A Victorian Anthology, 1837 – 1895, ( 1895 )

As the Victorian era began, Darwin pressed on with writing his Journal, and in August 1837 began correcting printer's proofs.

In the United Kingdom, and former British colonies, a Victorian house generally means any house built during the reign of Queen Victoria ( 1837 — 1901 ).

Victoriana refers to items or material from the Victorian period ( 1837 – 1901 ), especially those particularly evocative of the design style and outlook of the time.