TheVictorians

"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'.


How near in truth she was to India was a question few ...

How near in truth she was to India was a question few could answer. But the completion of the Suez Canal in 1869 had opened a new route from India to England, and on its flank lay Constantinople, and behind Constantinople the Black Sea Fleet.

The board was set, and the pieces in their place. At home, the forces so long restrained by the genial ascendancy of Palmerston

were seeking their traditional outlets, the abatement of

privilege and the extension of the franchise.

Mill was in for Westminster, and Gladstone out for Oxford. In 1866, Russell and Gladstone, unmuzzled at last and member for South Lancashire, introduced their Reform Bill.

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They were defeated, and for one bright summer evening London enjoyed the ...

They were defeated, and for one bright summer evening London enjoyed the forgotten thrill of a battle between Reformers and Policemen. Derby and Disraeli succeeded and fell.'

Radicalism was making itself felt again, and two cycles of Benthamite reform ...