They, however much they were in disagreement with the late Victorians over the method by which Britain was Germanized, agreed with them that the end result was the complete extinction of the previous Celtic population and civilization.

Sydney publican William Tunks accepted the challenge on behalf of New South Wales although the Victorians were criticised for playing for money.

The Victorians however, were no match for the English at cricket and the visitors won by an innings and 96 runs.

The Victorians were the first to use capsule pipelines to transmit telegraph messages, or telegrams, to nearby buildings from telegraph stations.

With times reasonably good, a perception arguably reinforced by an extensive government advertising campaign selling the virtues of Victoria to Victorians, polls indicated little interest in change, although towards the end of the election campaign polling indicated that the Liberals under Baillieu were closing the gap.

The Victorians were impressed by science and progress, and felt that they could improve society in the same way as they were improving technology.

The town largely grew in importance in the late 18th century when it was developed by the Dukes of Devonshire, with a second resurgence a century later as the Victorians were drawn to the reputed healing properties of the waters.

Strata Florida once again became a place of pilgrimage, this time to the wealthy Victorians, who were entertained on trips on the railway, who then could make use of a short bus link to visit the remains themselves.

Jet and alum were mined locally, and Whitby jet, which was mined by the Romans and Victorians became fashionable during the 19th century.

Many prominent Victorians were involved in La Trobe's establishment process, and there was a strong belief that it was important to increase research and learning in Victoria.

Cypress and willow were used for crafting wreath frames, and were associated with mourning by the Victorians.

The Victorians made smugglers into romantic anti-heroes ; in truth they were unscrupulous villains.

Melbourne's mood was also darkened by the terrible sacrifices of World War I, in which 112, 000 Victorians enlisted and 16, 000 were killed.

There was concern amongst the Victorians that aristocratic surnames were becoming extinct.

During the housing shortage of World War II, large single-family Victorians were divided into apartments to house workers.

Victorians disapproved of these Georgian galleries, and most were removed during restorations in the 19th century.

Both matches were won by an innings, part of a dominant summer for the Victorians.

Originally, the entire first floor was probably a single large room: in the 17th century large bedrooms were used socially, while the Victorians developed the modern notion of the bedroom as a private space.

It was not until his fifth match in charge, against minnows Tasmania — who were not in the Sheffield Shield competition at the time — that the Victorians tasted victory.

" The Victorians of Brumidi ’ s age were merely " inheritors of a long tradition of exploiting the rainbow ’ s powerful visual symbolism ," perpetuated by thousands of years of human communication.

In 1851 the Australian population was 437, 655, of which 77, 345, or just under 18 %, were Victorians.

Victorians believed disabilities were inherited, and thus it was not socially acceptable for the blind to marry ( although they often did in reality ).

Victorians in Britain often saw African sculpture as ugly, but just a few decades later, Edwardian audiences saw the same sculptures as being beautiful.

Works of steampunk often feature anachronistic technology, or futuristic innovations as Victorians might have envisioned them, based on a Victorian perspective on fashion, culture, architectural style, and art.

Styles are often borrowed from the Punks, Victorians and Elizabethans.

In a similar manner, Victorians often added " incidental music " under the dialogue to a pre-existing play, although this style of composition was already practiced in the days of Ludwig van Beethoven ( Egmont ) and Franz Schubert ( Rosamunde ).

* fine brickwork, often in a warmer, softer finish than the Victorians characteristically used, varied with terracotta panels, or tile-hung upper stories, with crisply-painted white woodwork, or blond limestone detailing

ISSN 1180-3991 ; Canadian cartoons often showed Uncle Same as a long, thin, vulture-like individual wearing striped pants and a starred top hat ; Belonging to a generation of Victorians both prudish and fascinated by things erotic, Canadian cartoonists of the time took delight in concocting innumerable scenarios according to which Miss Canada would yield, willingly or unwillingly, to Uncle Sam's advances.

* Melbourne, labeled as such in the late 19th century during the industrial boom following the Victorian gold rush, often by provincial Victorians and by people from other parts of Australia.

More than 30, 000 British drawings and watercolours include important examples of work by Hogarth, Sandby, Turner, Girtin, Constable, Cotman, Cox, Gillray, Rowlandson and Cruikshank, as well as all the great Victorians.

The rise of Highland romanticism and the growing Anglicisation of Scottish culture by the Victorians at the time led to registering tartans with clan names.

The Victorians, stung by criticism over the £ 1000 stake, argued over just about everything ; the toss, who should bat first, whether different pitches should be used for the different innings and even what the umpires should wear.

Scholars debate whether the Victorian period — as defined by a variety of sensibilities and political concerns that have come to be associated with the Victorians — actually begins with the passage of Reform Act 1832.

* Victorians British Library history resources about the Victorian era, featuring collection material and text by Liza Picard.

His book, The Victorians: Britain through the Paintings of the Age, published in 2009, was accompanied by a BBC documentary series.

There is a four-square-block park in the residential center of town surrounded by Queen Anne Victorians.

" It was also used by the Victorians for narrative poetry, e. g. Samuel Woodworth's " The Old Oaken Bucket " beginning " How dear to / my heart are / the scenes of / my childhood.

* George du Maurier, the Satirist of the Victorians by T. Martin Wood.

It is Hampden whose statue rather than that of Eliot or Pym that was selected by the Victorians as a symbol to take its place at the entrance to the Central Lobby in Palace of Westminster as the noblest type of the parliamentary opposition, sword at his side, ready to defend Parliament's rights and privileges by any means necessary.

Eminent Victorians is a book by Lytton Strachey ( one of the older members of the Bloomsbury Group ), first published in 1918 and consisting of biographies of four leading figures from the Victorian era.

In the early years of the Archibald Prize, the winner was dominated by Victorians, such as William Beckwith McInnes, John Longstaff, and William Dargie, which was somewhat resented by the art community in Sydney.

Photographs taken from the exterior show the dramatic nature of the rebuilding done by the Victorians.

The play was also condemned by the Victorians for its explicit sexual references ( though the sex, while explicitly and importantly present, is portrayed satirically and highly negatively ).

The parish church at the crossroads of Old Beaconsfield is dedicated to St Mary, it was rebuilt of flint and bath stone by the Victorians in 1869.