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"We had always been convinced that Victorianism was a myth, engendered by the long life of the sovereign and of her most illustrious subjects. We were constantly being told that the Victorians did this, or the Victorians thought that, while my own difficulty was to find anything on which they agreed: any assumption which was not at some time or other fiercely challenged. 'Victorian History'.


Eighty peers had sons in the Lower House. Democracy, it was plain, ...

Eighty peers had sons in the Lower House.

Democracy, it was plain, was advancing at no formidable pace: and the elections of 1874 showed an equally well marked fondness for old ways and old families. Even so, though it planted two advanced Radicals, if not Republicans, Fawcett and Duke, in office, and Chamberlain in the Cabinet, it did not make any violent alteration in the general composition of Governments and Parliaments.

In Beaconsfield's Cabinet of thirteen, there were six peers: in Gladstone's of fourteen there were five. For the measure which was to change completely the old political landscape of England, the two parties made themselves jointly responsible.

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The Franchise Bill of 1884, by extending the household and lodger franchise ...

The Franchise Bill of 1884, by extending the household and lodger franchise to the counties, added some 2,000,000 voters to an electorate of 3,000,000. The Conservatives insi

'The old type of judicial member,' Salisbury told the Queen, 'who sat ...

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