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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Victorian Britain"”.
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Prizefighting in mid-Victorian Britain.
… the supposed decline of prizefighting in Britain from 1860 to 1880, focusing on the transformation from bare-knuckle prizefights and major international bouts in the early 1860s to glove boxing in the 1870s. It challenges the common portrayal of a simple decline due to disorder and waning …
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Popular Sunday Newspapers in Late -Victorian Britain
"This study examines Britain's popular Sunday newspapers during the last two decades of the nineteenth century. Papers like Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper, Reynolds's Newspaper, People, and Weekly Dispatch sold millions of copies each week in the 1880s and 1890s, but have received little attention from …
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Botanical Biopolitics: The Sociopolitical Lives of Flowers in Victorian Britain
… investigation of plant-human relations in Victorian Britain which considers how people engaged with and thought about the plants which surrounded them in everyday life. Seeking to position Victorian plant-thinking as a significant antecedent of contemporary critical plant studies, I turn to …
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The feminism and political radicalism of Helen Taylor in Victorian Britain and Ireland
… of the antagonism. Her important contribution to Victorian social and political life has been largely ignored. The study will examine the significance of her work across a wide range of political and social organisations from 1876 onwards; namely the London School Board, the Irish question, land …
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Faith, fatherland and the politics of exile: the Irish press in mid-Victorian Britain
… a press amid the Irish immigrants in mid-Victorian England. There had long been a notable Irish contribution to English journalism, and the first Irish papers to be printed in England had been founded soon after the Act of Union. The press of the 1860s was to be different, however. Earlier …
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From Lineage to Legacy: Charles Garland Verrinder and Victorian Anglo-Jewish Music
… insight into the world of Jewish music in Victorian Britain. An Anglican musician trained as a chorister at Salisbury Cathedral and with Royal Organist Sir George Elvey, Verrinder’s forty-five-year career as the first organist of the West London Synagogue (Britain’s first ‘Reform’ …
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The Involvement of Jane Franklin in the Revival of the search for John Franklin 1854-1859
… within the historical and social setting of mid-Victorian Britain.
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Essays in Environmental and Political Economics
… analysis of the role of the urban environment in Victorian Britain. Chapter four presents an empirical analysis of the political economy of rebellions by legislators against their governing parties, using novel data from the UK parliament in 2019.
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'The Sancity Of Womanhood': John Ruskin And The Medieval Madonna
… of industrial, imperial nineteenth-century Victorian Britain. Though Ruskin is often labeled by some scholars as a prime example of Victorian sexism, an analysis of his reverence for and encouragement of virtuous medieval qualities in art, society and womanhood will allow us to more fully, …
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The Anti-Maynooth Campaign: A Study in Anti-Catholicism and Politics in the United Kingdom, 1851-69 (Protestantism, Ireland)
… one element in the anti-Catholic tradition of Victorian Britain. The anti-Maynooth campaign had both a parliamentary and an extra-parliamentary character, and printed sources form the basis for studying the two. Of particular value were the organs of sectarian public opinion, such as the …
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Beyond the Classical Landscape: Representing Greece and Anatolia in British Illustrated Books, 1832-1882
… were one of the foremost means for people in Britain to see and conceive the landscapes of Greece and Anatolia. Working to nuance the idea that British audiences regarded these locations exclusively through the lens of idealised antiquity, this project examines different strategies for …
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The Green Dining Room: The Experience of an Arts and Crafts Interior
… Room was conceived during an exciting period in Victorian Britain, when idealistic artists and architects elevated the status of the decorative arts in fine art circles, promoted the ideal of joy in labour, and sought beauty in the everyday. The Green Dining Room is considered a quintessential …
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Victorian Children's Book Illustrations
In the nineteenth century, as society in Victorian Britain adjusted to the effects of urbanization and industrialization, social roles began to shift, changes that were reflected in the children’s book illustrations of Randolph Caldecott, Henry J. Ford, and Beatrix Potter. This time period was …
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Fiction as history: an examination of the ideological content of the 19th century novel of manners, with a case study of the portrayal of the ruling class in Anthony Trollope's novels
… production and reproduction. The example of mid-Victorian Britain is used to illustrate this assertion. The place of reading and writing within sections of this society are examined. They are seen to be the context of a literary culture based around the periodical press: fictions are examined as …
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Boys of England and Edwin J. Brett, 1866-99
Boys of England was a Victorian boys' periodical. It was published weekly by Edwin J. Brett from 1866 to 1899, initially from the Fleet Street offices of the Newsagents' Publishing Company, and later from Brett's own `Boys of England Office'. It was the first periodical of its kind, and achieved a …
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Representations of Crime, Justice, and Punishment in the Popular Press: A Study of the Illustrated Police News, 1864-1938
… the view that the cultural imagination of Victorian Britain was narrowly defined by the ideal of respectability, or that by the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries popular culture had been successfully tamed. The study employs a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the content …
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Friendly societies in the rural East Riding, 1830-1912
… formed the largest working-class movement in Victorian Britain have been largely ignored by social and labour historians. Oddfellows, Foresters, Druids, Shepherds and Gardeners with their ritual, regalia, and secrecy imitative of Freemasonry, emerged as benefit societies in industrial …
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