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.

On that Mississippi riverine system today, including that of other sheltered waterways, industrial barge trafficking in bulk raw materials such as coal, coke, timber, iron ore and other minerals is extremely common in the developed world using huge cargo barges that connect in groups and trains-of-barges in ways which allow cargo volumes and weights which would astonish pioneers of modern barge systems and methods in the Victorian era.

As was common in the Victorian era, women of her class were privately educated and rarely sent to college.

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During the 19th century the Liberal Party was broadly in favour of what would today be called classical liberalism: supporting laissez-faire economic policies such as free trade and minimal government interference in the economy ( this doctrine was usually termed ' Gladstonian Liberalism ' after the Victorian era Liberal Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone ).

Sir William Harcourt, a prominent Liberal politician in the Victorian era, said this about liberalism in 1872:

Interest in the history of these events was revived during the English Renaissance and led to a resurgence of Boudica's legendary fame during the Victorian era, when Queen Victoria was portrayed as her ' namesake '.

It was in the Victorian era that Boudica's fame took on legendary proportions as Queen Victoria was seen to be Boudica's " namesake.

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.

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In the Victorian era it also became a centre for the production of clothing.

Its population grew with the arrival of the railways in the Victorian era and the advent of tourism.

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Fashions in crochet changed with the end of the Victorian era in the 1890s.

( One of the reasons formerly advanced for the non-completion of Babbage's engines had been that engineering methods were insufficiently developed in the Victorian era.

Category: Women of the Victorian era

Category: Women of the Victorian era

A calendar era indicates a span of many years which are numbered beginning at a specific reference date ( epoch ), which often marks the origin of a political state or cosmology, dynasty, ruler, the birth of a leader, or another significant historical or mythological event ; it is generally called after its focus accordingly as in Victorian era.

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Poor little birdie teased, by Victorian era illustrator Richard Doyle ( illustrator ) | Richard Doyle depicts the traditional view of an elf from later English folklore as a diminutive woodland humanoid.

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In the Victorian era, the Elizabethan legend was adapted to the imperial ideology of the day, and in the mid-20th century, Elizabeth was a romantic symbol of the national resistance to foreign threat.

Although originally associated with adult feasting and drinking, since the Victorian era, Father Christmas has gradually merged with the pre-modern gift giver St Nicholas ( Dutch Sinterklaas, hence Santa Claus ) and associated folklore.

By the Victorian era Gothic had ceased to be the dominant genre and was dismissed by most critics ( in fact the form's popularity as an established genre had already begun to erode with the success of the historical romance popularised by Sir Walter Scott ).

The Victorian Painter and British History, 1978, Thames and Hudson, ISBN 0500271321

Tenniel executed 2, 165 separate cartoons for Punch, a liberal and politically active publication that took full advantage of the Victorian time ’ s mood for want of liberal social changes ; thus Tenniel, in his cartoons, represented for years the conscience of the British people.

Tenniel became not only one of Victorian England ’ s most published illustrators, but as a Punch cartoonist he became one of the “ supreme social observers ” of British society, and an integral component of a powerful journalistic force.

In 2003, the British theatre company Punchdrunk used The Beaufoy Building in London, an old Victorian school to stage " Sleep No More ", the story of Macbeth in the style of a Hitchcock thriller, using reworked music from the soundtrack of classic Hitchcock films.

They state that this story may originate with an over-excited Victorian letter writer sharing somewhat exaggerated accounts of his exotic life in the tropical colony with a British audience back home.

The only important British honours over which the Prime Minister does not have control are the Orders of the Garter, Thistle, and Merit ; the Royal Victorian Order ; and the Venerable Order of Saint John, which are all within the " personal gift " of the Sovereign.

Victorian Infidels: the origins of the British Secularist Movement, 1791 – 1866.

Scott's novels were certainly influential in the making of the Victorian craze for all things Scottish among British royalty, who were anxious to claim legitimacy through their rather attenuated historical connection with the royal house of Stuart.

Martini-Henrys were the standard British rifles of the late Victorian era, and Martini-Enfield conversions continued in second-line service until the Second World War.

The 1871 Martini-Henry which replaced the " trapdoor " Snider-Enfield was the standard British Army rifle of the later Victorian era, and the Martini was also a popular action for civilian rifles.

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 emergence of photography, showcased at the Great Exhibition, resulted in significant changes in Victorian art with Queen Victoria being the first British monarch to be photographed.

The Victorian era marked the golden age of the British circus.

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

* Richard Brown and Barry Anthony, A Victorian Film Enterprise: The History of the British Mutoscope and Biograph Company ( Flicks Books, UK, 1997 )

Mary Elizabeth Braddon ( 4 October 1835 – 4 February 1915 ) was a British Victorian era popular novelist.

The Nights was a favourite book of many British authors of the Romantic and Victorian eras.

Under Tree, however, Her ( later His ) Majesty's Theatre was most famous for its work with Shakespeare, building an international reputation as the premier British playhouse for his works during the Edwardian era, which had for so long belonged to Henry Irving at the Lyceum Theatre during the Victorian period.

Forty years later Sir Henry Tate who was a sugar magnate and a major collector of Victorian art, offered to fund the building of the gallery to house British Art on the condition that the State pay for the site and revenue costs.

It was initially a collection solely of modern British art, concentrating on the works of modern — that is Victorian era — painters.

Fraser decided to write Flashman's memoirs, in which the school bully would be identified with an " illustrious Victorian soldier ": experiencing many 19th-century wars and adventures and rising to high rank in the British Army, acclaimed as a great soldier, while remaining by his unapologetic self-description " a scoundrel, a liar, a cheat, a thief, a coward — and oh yes, a toady.

British gardening personality Alan Titchmarsh wrote in 2003: " Chatsworth's greatest strength is that its owners have refused to let the garden rest on its Victorian laurels.

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