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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'.


The Turk remained a foreign body in the European system, and the ...

The Turk remained a foreign body in the European system, and the bad humours that generated about him / her necessarily infected our domestic politics as well.

Besides the two Trade Union Bills already mentioned, other measures of this fruitful session were the Food and Drugs Act, the Merchant Shipping Act (Plimsoll's line), a Public Health Act, and the Artisans' Dwellings Act.

Disraeli suggested that the Queen should become Patroness of the Artisans' Dwellings Company.

She declined on the ground that she knew nothing about its finances.

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Two years later, the chairman, who bore 'the inauspicious name of' Swindlehurst, ...

Two years later, the chairman, who bore 'the inauspicious name of' Swindlehurst, after a life of good works, went to prison for emb

At this moment, the Prime Minister, now past seventy, decided to seek ...