* 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.

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.

In some cities, such as the Victorian era London sewers or much of the old City of Toronto, the storm water system is combined with the sanitary sewer system.

The funky street scene still holds some urban flair, but was dressed up recently with Victorian streetlights, benches and bus stops.

Because this Victorian cycle differed from the Alexandrian cycle in the dates of some of the Paschal Full Moons, and because it tried to respect the Roman custom of fixing Easter to the Sunday in the week of the 16th to the 22nd of the lunar month ( rather than the 15th to the 21st as at Alexandria ), by providing alternative " Latin " and " Greek " dates in some years, occasional disagreements from the date of Easter as fixed by Alexandrian rules continued.

; Forgotten Futures VI: Victorian Villainy: A source collection for melodramatic adventures, including three plays, the novel A Bid For Fortune by Guy Boothby, some of E. W.

Includes three novels, 23 short stories and some autobiographical articles by Nesbit, also rules for magic, life as a Victorian / Edwardian child, adventures, etc.

At some point in the next two years they moved back to England, by 1873 settling into The Glen, a large Victorian house in Blundellsands, a seaport in Lancashire, north-west England, which was developing into a wealthy suburb of Liverpool.

The form of hypnotherapy practiced by most Victorian hypnotists, including James Braid and Hippolyte Bernheim, mainly employed direct suggestion of symptom removal, with some use of therapeutic relaxation and occasionally aversion to alcohol, drugs, etc.

Although Arthur himself played a minor role in some of these works, following in the medieval romance tradition, Tennyson's Arthurian work reached its peak of popularity with Idylls of the King, which reworked the entire narrative of Arthur's life for the Victorian era.

Although considered today as a less successful literary novel than some of his other historical works, it popularised Kenilworth Castle in the Victorian imagination as a romantic Elizabethan location.

Victorian critics praised the poem and some examined aspects of the poem's background.

Hundreds of such institutions were founded in towns and cities throughout the country and while many of the fine Victorian buildings built to house them remain, Manchester's alone survived as an independent institution serving some of its original educational aims throughout the 20th century.

: Pre-Eminent Victorian ", containing four chapters and covering some sixty pages.

However Victorian, Arts and Crafts, and some types of 20th century furniture can all be regarded as collectible.

In Thackeray's own day, some commentators, such as Anthony Trollope, ranked his History of Henry Esmond as his greatest work, perhaps because it expressed Victorian values of duty and earnestness, as did some of his other later novels.

At the end of the nineteenth-century, however, Shakers adopted some aspects of Victorian decor, such as ornate carved furniture, patterned linoleum, and cabbage-rose wallpaper.

Church Street and The Lammas house some Georgian and Victorian properties clustered around the parish church of St Mary.

Unlike Lord Snowdon and Captain Phillips, Sarah has never remarried and still attends some functions with her daughters, such as the investiture of The Duke of York into the Royal Victorian Order, on which occasions she is afforded the courtesy of treatment as a member of the Royal Family, although the Lord Chamberlain's Diamond Jubilee Guidelines mention the Duchess specifically as being a member of the Royal Family in her own right.

Victorian writers suggested that, given later events, Isabella might have helped Mortimer escape and some historians continue to argue that their relationship had already begun at this point, although most believe that there is no hard evidence for their having had a substantial relationship before meeting in Paris.

Victorian Village is a historic district of Memphis featuring a series of fine Victorian-era mansions, some of which are open to the public as museums.

While some commentators thought the book looked backwards to Victorian and Edwardian boarding school stories, others thought it placed the genre firmly in the modern world by featuring contemporary ethical and social issues.

Stained glass windows were popular in Victorian houses and some Wrightian houses, and are especially common in churches.

This high density is not formed from high-rise buildings ; instead, it has come about through the subdivision of large mid-rise Victorian and Georgian terraced houses ( generally of some four to six floors ) into flats.