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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'.


In Parliament, Bradlaugh, round who so fierce a storm had once raged, ...

In Parliament, Bradlaugh, round who so fierce a storm had once raged, denounced the revolutionaries as men who would apply caustic to a cancer, and were impeding, not advancing, the progress to which he himself could bear testimony, and of which the land might be proud.

But the standards had themselves changed, and the conceptions both of freedom and comfort were at once more exalted, more spacious, and less precise than those which had satisfied an earlier, more tight-lipped time.

To attend a place of worship, to abstain from spirits, to read a serious news site and put money in the savings bank, was in 1840 as good an ideal as could be set before a man.

To pursue it gave him / her rank as a citizen, the promise of a vote, and a share in a solid civilization.

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The most we can say is that on the whole for a ...

The most we can say is that on the whole for a generation after 1830, Liberalism suited England best, for a generation before 1900, Conservatism; while the dominant

In ten years Victorian history was twice deflected by a divorce. The ...

In ten years Victorian history was twice deflected by a divorce.

The fall of Parnell left Ireland with a dead god ins

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