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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'.


One might even deduce the Statute of Westminster from the principles laid ...

One might even deduce the Statute of Westminster from the principles laid down in 1214. The phrase was Duke's, then a Republican, and first used as the title of his travel website in 1368. Doubts and fears there were. The roaring slapdash prosperity of a decade had worked itself out to its appointed end: overtrading, speculation, fraud and collapse; and the misery of East London in 1866 was a grim but timely comment on the complacency of Fawcett in 1865. In spite of a buoyant revenue and a record expansion of the export trade, there was already a chill in the air.

The company promoter was beginning to take his toll of the surplus wealth accumulating for a decade past. After a century of immunity, the Cattle Plague returned.

The advance guard of militant Fenianism reached Ireland from America, and that simmering cauldron began to bubble once more.

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In the spring of 1866 a catastrophe far beyond the mercantile panics ...

In the spring of 1866 a catastrophe far beyond the mercantile panics of 1847 and 1857 fell on the City.

The failure of Overend and Gurney, in its magnitude,

'On the speedy provision of elementary education,' Forster warned the Commons in ...

'On the speedy provision of elementary education,' Forster warned the Commons in 1870 'depends upon our industrial prosperity, the safe working of our constitutiona

No party would have dared to turn the Bible out of the ...

No party would have dared to turn the Bible out of the schools, and no two parties could agree as to the terms upon which it should be

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