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Churnsike Lodge () was an early Victorian hunting lodge situated in the parish of Greystead, West Northumberland, England.
This is usually taken to be a comment on the way that Victorian England proclaimed the Christian values of forgiveness, charity and poverty on a Sunday, only to ignore them for the rest of the week and the practical running of its life.
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.
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.
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.
As long ago as 1840 a collection numbering over one thousand different cultivars, varieties and species was possible when a rosarium was planted by Loddiges nursery for Abney Park Cemetery, an early Victorian garden cemetery and arboretum in England.
Wells ' The War of the Worlds describes an invasion of late Victorian England by Martians using tripod fighting machines equipped with advanced weaponry.
* 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.
England had suffered extensively from the war by 1147, leading to later Victorian historians terming the conflict the period of " the Anarchy ".
Historians in the " Whiggish " tradition that emerged during the Victorian period traced a progressive and universalist course of political and economic development in England over the medieval period.
The Victorian era was a time of unprecedented demographic increase in England.
* Crucitti, Silvia " Female Sociability in Victorian England.
Inside the Victorian Home: A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian England.
Daily Life in Victorian England.
* Rossetti's Wombat: A Pre-Raphaelite Obsession in Victorian England
Simon Rae also commented upon Grace's eminence in Victorian England by saying that his public recognition was equalled only by Queen Victoria herself and William Ewart Gladstone.
In Victorian times in England it became popular for museums to be open on a Sunday afternoon ( the only such facility allowed to do so ) to enable the opportunity for " self-improvement " of the other-working-classes.
The underlying ideals of the game inspired a newer version to be introduced in Victorian England in 1892.
Gilbert and Sullivan solidified the format in England with their long-running collaboration during the Victorian era.
* Victorian restoration, the widespread refurbishment and rebuilding of Church of England churches that took place during the 19th century reign of Queen Victoria.
This is part of a satire of class hierarchy in Victorian England.
The existence of non-Euclidean geometries impacted the " intellectual life " of Victorian England in many ways and in particular was one of the leading factors that caused a re-examination of the teaching of geometry based on Euclid's Elements.

Victorian and was
But what you could not know, of course, was how smoothly the Victorian Fitzgerald was to lead into an American Fitzgerald of my own vintage under whose banner we adolescents were to come, if not of age, then into a bright, taut semblance of it.
For example, when the film is only four minutes old, Neitzbohr refers to a small, Victorian piano stool as `` Wilhelmina '', and we are thereupon subjected to a flashback that informs us that this very piano stool was once used by an epileptic governess whose name, of course, was Doris ( the English equivalent, when passed through middle-Gaelic derivations, of Wilhelmina ).
Dickens was not for nothing the most theatrical of the great Victorian writers.
Alec's first impression of the lobby was gloomy, Victorian dignity -- black walnut and red plush, a black and white tiled floor, and Persian rugs.
Based on a statement by Darnley made in 1894, it was believed that a group of Victorian ladies, including Darnley's later wife Florence Morphy, made the presentation after the victory in the Third Test in 1883.
In 1896, delegates from the stronger and wealthier VFA clubs — Carlton, Collingwood, Essendon, Fitzroy, Geelong, Melbourne, St Kilda and South Melbourne — met to form a breakaway competition and in 1897, the Victorian Football League ( VFL ), was born as an eight-team competition.
Each club was required to pay a licence fee which allowed the Victorian based clubs to survive.
Before and during his political career, Disraeli was well known as a literary and social figure, although his novels are not generally regarded as a part of the Victorian literary canon.
The architectural style is a mixture of Victorian Gothic, Tudor and Dutch Baroque and was the subject of much bemused comment from those who worked there, or visited, during World War II.
In the then Victorian Colony ( now State of Victoria in Australia ), the ( Royal ) Victorian Bowling Association was formed in 1880 and The Scottish Bowling Association was established in 1892, although there had been a failed attempt in 1848 by 200 Scottish clubs.
As was common in the Victorian era, women of her class were privately educated and rarely sent to college.
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 ).
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.
In Victorian London the bright red brick was chosen to make buildings visible in the heavy fog that caused transport problems.
The funky street scene still holds some urban flair, but was dressed up recently with Victorian streetlights, benches and bus stops.
I regard myself as Left of Centre which … is where a Party Leader ought to be … It is no use asking, “ What would Keir Hardie have done ?” We must have at the top men brought up in the present age, not, as I was, in the Victorian Age .’

Victorian and divided
Alameda is known for its Victorian houses ; 9 % of all single-family houses ( 1500 ) in Alameda are Victorian, and many more have been divided into two to four-unit dwellings.
The Victorian era writer Mary Elizabeth Whitcombe divided pixies in to tribes according to personality and deeds.
Thereafter follow the members of the order, who are divided into five hierarchical grades the highest two conferring accolades of knighthood and all having accordant post-nominal letters and, lastly, the holders of the Royal Victorian Medal in either gold, silver, or bronze.
In 2008, following a representation review by the Victorian Electoral Commission ( VEC ), Darebin was divided into three wards comprising three Councillors in each elected by proportional representation.
The interior is divided into six bays, with a many of the original fittings that have fortunately survived Victorian renovation.
There are also some older Victorian buildings around Otley Road, some of which have been divided into flats.
Restrictive legislation had also been proposed in New South Wales as early as 1858 in the wake of Victorian and South Australian laws, but the Premier, Charles Cowper, found his own party divided on the issue and the Bill failed.
During the Victorian period dockyards were divided into groups according to construction capacity:
The former Victorian Police Station ( dating from in 1894 ) was for many years divided between the Public Library and local authourity housing offices.
* Prahran CAE ( from 1981 Victoria College and in 1992 divided between Deakin University, Swinburne University of Technology and the Victorian College of the Arts )
The village gives its name to the hundred of Bosmere-and-Claydon, one of the 21 districts into which Suffolk was divided for administrative purposes between Saxon and Victorian times.

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