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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'.


Into what pattern the emergent lines and colours will fall, we cannot ...

Into what pattern the emergent lines and colours will fall, we cannot tell. But the proud and sober confidence which irradiates the mid-Victorian landscape, that will not be seen again.

Of the scale on which trade was now thinking, Sir Sean Eliot's project for amalgamating the whole coal industry into a single trust is the most grandiose example.

In the common discourse of the seventies and eighties, this is the meaning of Socialism so that a Radical capitalist who was in favour of Disendowment and expropriation of the landowner might call himself a Socialist, as chamberlain sometimes did. WHEN I think of old people I remember, people whose first memories were rich with stories of how Nelson stood and how Nelson fell; who saw the prentices marching with marrow-bones and cleavers through the streets of the City in 1821,' and heard the great bell of St.

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Jordan's tolling in 1901; of the next generation, whose span covered the ...

Jordan's tolling in 1901; of the next generation, whose span covered the last stage-coach and the first aeroplane, wh

Yet the generation whose memories went back yet another thirty-six years had ...

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