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.

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

* James Gregory, Of Victorians and vegetarians: the vegetarian movement in nineteenth-century Britain.

* Wawn, Andrew ( 2000 ) The Vikings and the Victorians: Inventing the Old North in Nineteenth-Century Britain ( Cambridge: Brewer ) ISBN 0-85991-644-8

The company is strongly associated with the world stage premieres of Horrible Histories including Terrible Tudors, Vile Victorians, Ruthless Romans, Awful Egyptians, Frightful First World War, Woeful Second World War and its record-breaking production of Barmy Britain, which is the longest running children's show in West End history.

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.

Staid Victorians were often scandalised by Mary Anne's uninhibited remarks but soon learned not to insult her within Disraeli's hearing.

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.

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

* 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.

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.

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

Downtown San Jose's early 20th century housing is diverse and includes many smaller Victorian homes along with a few fairly large gingerbread or Italianate-style Victorians, Craftsman, Mission and California Bungalow architecture in the neighborhoods surrounding the downtown core.

Shotgun houses and 2½ story Victorians, more modest than those on the east side of Bardstown Road, make up the majority of the stock in the oldest sections, while modest craftsmen-style houses dominate streets further out, and a few small ranch style homes can be found west of Norris Place.

Victoria has always been a powerful force in Australian cricket and the Australian team has, until recent decades, never been short of Victorians in the line up.

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.

The later Victorians built the Welsh Castell Coch in the 1880s as a fantasy Gothic construction and the last such replica, Castle Drogo, was built as late as 1911.

The Meanwood Beck, to the east of the village, was a source of water for the early inhabitants and later provided a source of power for the Victorians of Leeds.

It is likely that there was a Saxon church before it was replaced by the Normans and later the Victorians.

Their religious inclinations are reflected in their later works, where their earlier writing is influenced by classical and Renaissance culture, in its pagan aspects particularly, Sappho as understood by the late Victorians, and perhaps Walter Savage Landor.

This appears to be merely a fashion, however, as later Victorians appeared to favour the bucolic part of the ' rus in urbes ' equation.

In 1919, Edward, Prince of Wales waltzed into the dawn in its Crystal Ballroom-an event considered by Victorians to be of such importance that almost 50 years later, the obituaries of elderly ladies would appear under headlines such as, ' Mrs. Thornley-Hall Dies.

The Victorians and Edwardian were particularly concerned with improving design to its utmost practicality and the patents relating to furniture greatly increased in the second half of the 19th Century.

Ronald Pearsall in his book Table-rappers: The Victorians and the Occult ( 1972 ) documented how every Victorian medium investigated had been exposed as using trickery, in the book he revealed how mediums would even use acrobatic techniques during seances to convince audiences of spirit presences.

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

Other influential Victorians such as Sir Henry Tate, Sir Henry Doulton and Baron de Reuters are buried within the same cemetery.

The American critic Edmund Wilson wrote in the New Republic of 21 September, 1932, not long after Strachey's death " Lytton Strachey's chief mission, of course, was to take down once and for all the pretensions of the Victorian age to moral superiority ... neither the Americans nor the English have ever, since Eminent Victorians appeared, been able to feel quite the same about the legends that had dominated their pasts.

Renowned as being the " Father of Railways ", the Victorians considered him a great example of diligent application and thirst for improvement, with self-help advocate Samuel Smiles particularly praising his achievements.

Much of the remainder of the village is residential, with houses tending from modest and small near downtown, the river and railroad, to more expansive homes ( such as the Victorians along the west side of Ulster Avenue ) being found on the hills, newer development near the southwestern and eastern borders with the town, and 6 small apartment and townhouse complexes.

While certainly being far more open minded than many Victorians, she is still a product of her age.

This fabrication was popular with the Victorians, and has come down to the present day as being the legend.

A wife's place in the family hierarchy was secondary to her husband, but far from being considered unimportant, a wife's duties to tend to her husband and properly raise her children were considered crucial cornerstones of social stability by the Victorians.

However, the choice of subject matter ( ancient civilisation versus, for example, Arthurian legend ) is more properly that of the Victorian Neoclassicist: however, it is appropriate to comment that in common with numerous painters contemporary with him, Godward was a ' High Victorian Dreamer ', producing beautiful images of a world which, it must be said, was idealised and romanticised, and which in the case of both Godward and Alma-Tadema came to be criticised as a world-view of ' Victorians in togas '.

This was not, as the Victorians asserted, the birth of the English Navy.

Botany was a passion for most Victorians and nature study was a popular enthusiasm.

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 mood and themes of the Gothic novel held a particular fascination for the Victorians, with their morbid obsession with mourning rituals, mementos, and mortality in general.

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.

Victoria had played Tasmania as early as 1851 but the Victorians had included two professionals in the 1853 team upsetting the Tasmanians and causing a cooling of relations between the two colonies.

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.

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.

There is little distinction between " streets " and " avenues " in Victoria as there is in other cities such as Vancouver or Edmonton where " streets " run north-south and " avenues " run east-west, and Victorians are unlikely to use the terms " north ", " south ", " east ", or " west " when giving directions.

The new dictionaries of the Old Norse language enabled the Victorians to grapple with the primary Icelandic Sagas.

Complaints from Victorians about recently released convicts from Van Diemen's Land re-offending in Victoria was one of the contributing reasons for the eventual abolition of transportation to Van Diemen's Land in 1853.

The new dictionaries of the Old Norse language enabled the Victorians to grapple with the primary Icelandic sagas.

* Wilson, A. N. The Victorians.

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