Lyrical and almost epigrammatic in form, the poems ' wistful evocation of doomed youth in the English countryside, in spare language and distinctive imagery, appealed strongly to late Victorian and Edwardian taste, and to many early 20th century English composers ( beginning with Arthur Somervell ) both before and after the First World War.

Forgotten Futures is a role-playing game created by Marcus Rowland to allow people to play in settings inspired by Victorian and Edwardian science fiction and fantasy ( i. e. Steampunk ).

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

; The Forgotten Futures Compendium: Two long adventures, Curse of the Leopardmen by Alex Stewart and The League of Extraordinary Geometers ( a crossover with The Original Flatland RPG ) by Marcus Rowland, plus adventure outlines based on Victorian and Edwardian advertising by Marcus Rowland.

Modernist primitivism and pessimism were controversial, but were not seen as representative of the Edwardian mainstream, which was more inclined towards a Victorian faith in progress and liberal optimism.

Other periods are named from influential or talismanic individuals (" the Victorian Era ", " the Edwardian Era ", " the Napoleonic Era ").

The SPR is frequently referred to in Victorian and Edwardian literature as " the Psychical Research Society ".

The Old West End is a historic neighborhood of Victorian, Arts & Crafts, and other Edwardian style houses recognized by the National Register of Historic Places.

Victorian and Edwardian tablespoons used in the UK are often 25 ml or sometimes larger.

Queen Victoria died in 1901 and her son Edward VII became king, inaugurating the Edwardian Era, which was characterised by great and ostentatious displays of wealth in contrast to the sombre Victorian Era.

Although ‘ Edwardian Mercia ’ never had the success of ‘ Victorian Wessex ’, it was an idea that appealed to the higher echelons of society.

Fantasy photomontaged postcards were popular in the Victorian and Edwardian periods. The preeminent producer in this period was the Bamforh Company, in Holmfirth, West Yorksihire, and New York.

* Rosenbaum, S. P ( ed ), A Bloomsbury Group Reader ( 1993 ); ( ed ), The Bloomsbury Group: A Collection of Memoirs and Commentary ( revised edition, 1995 ); " The Early Literary HIstory of the Bloomsbury Group: Victorian Bloomsbury ( 1987 ), Edwardian Bloomsbury ( 1994 ), Georgian Bloomsbury ( 2003 )

Elizabethan, Edwardian, Georgian, and Victorian, are examples of these.

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.

Nicholas Tucker described the early Harry Potter books as looking back to Victorian and Edwardian children's stories: Hogwarts was an old-style boarding school in which the teachers addressed pupils formally by their surnames and were most concerned with the reputations of the houses with which they were associated ; characters ' personalities were plainly shown by their appearances, starting with the Dursleys ; evil or malicious characters were to be crushed rather than reformed, including Filch's cat Mrs Norris ; and the hero, a mistreated orphan who found his true place in life, was charismatic and good at sports, but considerate and protective towards the weak.

Opening with a letter to the playwright Halcott Glover, the book takes a variable but generally satirical, cynical and critical posture, and belabours Victorian and Edwardian cant.

Long considered part of the repertory of classic “ drawing room ” theatre, the play has also been hailed as a scathing critique of the hypocrisies of Victorian / Edwardian English society and as an expression of Priestley ’ s Socialist political principles.

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.

Called Turn Back Time-The High Street, the series features a number of families running traditional bakers, butchers, grocers, and dressmakers shops, as well as a tea room, as they would have been during the Victorian and Edwardian eras, during World War II, and in the 1960s and 1970s.

Although Christian use of Plutarch's story is of long standing, Ronald Hutton has argued that this specific association is modern and derives from Pan's popularity in Victorian and Edwardian neopaganism.

Gorey's illustrated ( and sometimes wordless ) books, with their vaguely ominous air and ostensibly Victorian and Edwardian settings, have long had a cult following.

After a major fire in 1978 destroyed the Victorian and Edwardian additions to the building, restoration work was completed in 1984.

Now an historic house museum, the building features a period kitchen, and house details from the Georgian, Victorian and Edwardian eras.

Victorian historians often referred to the tribe as the Damnonii, which is also the name of another Celtic people from lowland Scotland, although there are no known links between the two populations.

By the Victorian period in the 19th century historians were more inclined to draw on the judgements of the chroniclers and to focus on John's moral personality.

England had suffered extensively from the war by 1147, leading to later Victorian historians terming the conflict the period of " the Anarchy ".

Other prominent academics associated with the University include Geoffrey Bennington, the creator of the MA programme in Modern French Thought ( Derrida, Lyotard ); Homi K. Bhabha ( postcolonialism ); Rachel Bowlby ( feminism, Woolf, Freud ); Geoff Cloke FRS ( Inorganic Chemistry ); Jonathan Dollimore ( Renaissance literature, gender and queer studies ); Katy Gardner ( social anthropology ); Gabriel Josipovici ( Dante, the Bible ); Michael Land FRS ( Animal Vision-Frink Medal )); Michael Lappert FRS ( Inorganic Chemistry ); Alan Lehmann FRS ( Genetics and Genome Stability ); ( Laura Marcus ( Woolf ); John Murrell FRS ( Theoretical Chemistry ); Peter Nicholls ( Pound, modernism ); John Nixon FRS ( Inorganic Chemistry )); Laurence Pearl FRS ( Structural Biology ); Guy Richardson FRS ( Neuroscience ); Jacqueline Rose ( feminism, psychoanalysis ); Nicholas Royle ( modern literature and theory ; deconstruction ); Alan Sinfield ( Shakespeare, sexuality, queer theory ); Norman Vance ( Victorian, classical reception ); Richard Whatmore & Knud Haakonssen ( intellectual historians ); Gavin Ashenden ( Senior Lecturer in English, University Chaplain, and Chaplain to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II ; Cedric Watts ( Conrad, Greene ); Marcus Wood ( postcolonialism ).

The terms ' Witan ' and ' Witenagemot ' are increasingly avoided by modern historians, although few would go as far as Geoffrey Hindley, who described ' witenagemot ' as an " essentially Victorian " coinage.

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.

Chroniclers described the period as one in which " Christ and his saints were asleep " and Victorian historians called the conflict " the Anarchy " because of the chaos, although modern historians have questioned the accuracy of the term and some contemporary accounts.

Victorian historians such as George Clark and John Parker concluded that British castles had been built for the purposes of military defence, but believed that their history was pre-Conquest – concluding that the mottes across the countryside had been built by either the Romans or Celts.

Victorian historians even attributed the early death of Baltasar to debauchery, encouraged by the gentlemen entrusted by the king with his education.

Victorian historians, including E. A. Freeman, vilified Ranulf, and Freeman especially held that Ranulf was a " malignant genius ".

This interpretation was enhanced by the High and Late Victorian historians, James Anthony Froude and A. F. Pollard, who saw Somerset as a champion of political liberty whose desire " to do good " was thwarted by, in Pollard's phrase, " the subtlest intriguer in English History ".

* J. W. Burrow A Liberal Descent: Victorian historians and the English past ( 1981, paperback edition 1983 ).

Scholars and philanthropists The historians Kenneth Hamilton Jenkin and Charles Thomas were also born in Redruth, and the Victorian philanthropist John Passmore Edwards was born in the neighbouring village of Blackwater.

Feminist literary theory identifies Ayesha's death in the fire as a punishment for her transgression of Victorian gender boundaries. Feminist literary historians have tended to define the figure of She as a literary manifestation of male alarm over the " learned and crusading new woman ".

It was revived by architectural historians in the 1960s and popularised by the nascent conservation movement to bring attention to the complex of public Victorian buildings and the surrounding houses built on the Commissioners ' estate, that were threatened with demolition by the expansion and redevelopment plans of Imperial College.

Some historians classify the later years of Gothic Revival as a distinctive Victorian style named High Victorian Gothic.

However, historians Peter Gay and Michael Mason both point out that modern society often confuses Victorian etiquette for a lack of knowledge.

Some current historians now believe that the myth of Victorian repression can be traced back to early twentieth-century views, such as those of Lytton Strachey, a member of the Bloomsbury Group, who wrote Eminent Victorians.

By the 19th century Victorian historians incorrectly concluded that the etymology of the words " keep " and tenazza were linked, and that all keeps had fulfilled this military function.

Late Victorian historians continued to use the chroniclers as sources, but also deployed documents such as Domesday Book and Magna Carta, alongside newly discovered financial, legal and commercial records.

The best effort by local historians to place the actual site of the Mayflower finally casting off is roughly where a Victorian public house, the Admiral MacBride, now stands.

S. C. Mittal believes that Hunter " represented the official mind of the bureaucratic Victorian historians in India ", of whom James Talboys Wheeler and Alfred Comyn Lyall were other examples.