* 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.

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.

* Steampunk is based on the idea of futuristic technology existing in the past, usually the 19th century, and often set in Victorian era England — but with prominent elements of either science fiction or fantasy, such as fictional technological inventions like those found in the works of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, or real technological developments like the computer occurring at an earlier date.

For many older Victorian speakers, the words " celery " and " salary " also sound the same but instead both sound like " celery ".

) Hundreds of thousands of engravings, photographs, and / or literary depictions of spanking and flagellation (" birching ") fantasies circulated during the Victorian era, including erotic novellas like The Whippingham Papers, The Birchen Bouquet, Exhibition of Female Flagellants or the pornographic comic opera Lady Bumtickler's Revels.

Perhaps the most elaborate theme in From Hell stems from Moore's statement that " the Ripper murders — happening when they did and where they did — were almost like an apocalyptic summary of ... that entire Victorian age.

The tightly packed Victorian streets provided homes for the clerks and employees of the new purpose built factories ( like Berger Paints ) being built in the area.

After the American Civil War, a number of Jewish immigrants escaping religious persecution in Germany arrived and made important contributions to commerce in the lean years, providing credit when the banks failed, building impressive Victorian homes like the Wolf-Schlessinger House, now operated as the St. Francisville Inn B & B.

The building on the north side of the tracks ( westbound platform ) is a Victorian building and, like the north building at Westfield, is used by a non-profit organization.

Perhaps one of the novel's greatest strengths is that it contains hundreds of references to the popular and educated culture of the time and thus gives a better idea than most contemporary novels of what it was like to live in England then — almost a miniature education in Victorian life.

Others like an entrenchments on Broad Bank hill at Burwains farm, and Bonfire hill, a possible camp on Shelfield hill around the site of the Victorian Walton Spire, and dykes at Saxifield, Thieveley, Ree Lees, and Broadclough near Bacup, he felt indicated military activity during the period.

During this time in Victorian England, tastes were changing in regard to freak show exhibitions like the Elephant Man.

Although retained by some prominent figures who were young men in the Victorian period ( like Sigmund Freud ), most men who retained facial hair during the 1920s and 1930s limited themselves to a moustache or a goatee ( such as with Marcel Proust, Albert Einstein, Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Adolf Hitler, and Joseph Stalin ).

H. G. Wells's ( 1866-1946 ) writing career began in the 1890s with science fiction novels like The Time Machine ( 1895 ), and The War of the Worlds ( 1898 ) which describes an invasion of late Victorian England by Martians, and Wells is seen, along with Frenchman Jules Verne ( 1828-1905 ), as a major figure in the development of the science fiction genre.

Torquay's economy was, like Brixham's, initially based on fishing and agriculture, but in the early 19th century it began to develop into a fashionable seaside resort, initially frequented by members of the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars while the Royal Navy anchored in Torbay and later, as the town's fame spread, by Victorian society.

Most controversially, during England's Victorian era, Hardy criticized revered institutions like marriage and Christianity.

Terry Deary said of The Terry Deary History Experience Park: " What I hope to build is a History Experience where I recreate authentic villages from various periods — Tudor, Roman, Victorian perhaps — with nothing of the 20th century in them ... They'll be enclosed in domes like the Eden Project in Cornwall so they'll be all-weather attractions and they will not be museums or theme parks ; they will be peopled by actors and the visitors can join in the never-ending re-enactments of the past — with all its horrible history flavour — over there is a pickpocket on trial for stealing ... is he guilty, do we hang him?

* Agnes in Anne Brontë's novel Agnes Grey, different from her sisters ' novels, Agnes Grey portrays a more realistic view of what life for a governess was like in Victorian England.

The present St Stephen's Anglican Church, a fine example of Victorian Gothic architecture, was designed, like its predecessor, by Blacket, and built in the grounds of cemetery between 1871 and 1880.

Springfield features thousands of Victorian era Painted Lady mansions ( like San Francisco's ,) e. g., in the McKnight Historic District.

As his American follower John Fiske observed, Spencer's ideas were to be found " running like the weft through all the warp " of Victorian thought.

Scottish crest badges, much like clan-specific tartans, do not have a long history, and owe much to Victorian era romanticism, having only been worn on the bonnet since the 19th century.

For example, the park's Paradise Pier ( originally a modern, seaside carnival-style wharf with comedic midway games and rides like Maliboomer and Mulholland Madness ) was re-themed to a Victorian Era pier with flashing incandescent lightbulbs, classic midway games with Disney character references, and the Toy Story Midway Mania interactive attraction.

During this time frame there were also major independent voices who defied links to well-known American poetic movements and forms such as poet and literary critic Robert Peters, greatly influenced by the Victorian English poet Robert Browning ’ s poetic monologues, became reputable for executing his monologic personae like his Mad King Ludwig II of Bavaria into popular one-man performances.

The classification and taxonomy of Rhamphorhynchus, like many pterosaur species known since the Victorian era, is complex, with a long history of reclassification under a variety of names, often for the same specimens.