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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 the mid-fifties returning exiles were greeted by a novel sight. The ...

In the mid-fifties returning exiles were greeted by a novel sight.

The black wreath over London was thinning; the Thames was fringed

with smokeless chimneys.

The Home Office had begun to harry offenders under the Smoke Nuisance (Metropolis) Act Of 1853. But the great development of municipal administration belongs to the next generation.

The advance of education was much more rapid.

In fact, by 1846 it had already passed out of its first phase of mass production by monitors and private initiative into the phase of trained teachers and public control. Under the monitorial system, the more forward children imparted the elements to the juniors in groups.

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As a device for getting simple ideas into simple heads as fast ...

As a device for getting simple ideas into simple heads as fast as possible it was successful.' Up to a certain point the Bell and Lancaster children made astonishing progres

Six years later the distribution was entrusted to a Committee of Council, ...

Six years later the distribution was entrusted to a Committee of Council, nominally: effectively, to their Secretary, Kay-Shuttleworth of the Manch

The average school-life was perhaps two years, perhaps eighteen months. The Society ...

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