Victorian History
An idiosyncratic selection of short bits about elements of Victorian history.
Friday, January 25, 2013
Victoria's Diamond Jubilee
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June of 2012 saw the Diamond Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. In her sixtieth year on the throne she became the second longest ser...
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Monday, December 17, 2012
The Victorian Casual Ward
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Luke Fildes, Applicants for Admission to a Casual Ward (1874) All during Victoria's long reign the streets of London (not to mentio...
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Wednesday, March 28, 2012
The Cinderella Club Movement
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Every reader of Christmas tales is familiar with the wonderful scene in Dickens' A Christmas Carol where two "portly gentlemen, p...
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Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Baby Farming
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"The darkest, most ghastly shame in the land" wrote the Reverend Benjamin Waugh, Honorary Director of the National Society for the...
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Thursday, March 01, 2012
Travelling Menageries
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Zoos and menageries were very much in vogue all through Victoria's reign. For many of her subjects, men and women who would not t...
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