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21 ore fa · Victorians experienced a world transforming before their eyes. The burgeoning middle class embraced ‘Victorian values‘ emphasizing hard work, thrift, temperance and evangelical Christianity. Victorian culture idealized the domestic sphere as a haven from amoral commerce and politics, with women as "angels of the house."
4 giorni fa · Victorian (and Edwardian) historians lead the field in terms of output - in 1997 (according to the Royal Historical Society's Annual Bibliography of British & Irish History) some 1,143 books, articles, and chapters in collective volumes were published on British history, 1815-1914 (not including Ireland or the empire), compared to 713 for the 1714-1815 period, and 1,075 for Britain since 1914.
17 mag 2024 · eBook ISBN: 9780752491776. eBook price: Our price: £. eBook publication date: 19 May 6800. Category: Heritage. Buy eBook. More about buying eBooks from us. Other buying options >. Britain in Queen Victoria’s reign grew in power and prestige to become the richest nation on earth through its trade and Empire.
6 giorni fa · Victoria (born May 24, 1819, Kensington Palace, London, England—died January 22, 1901, Osborne, near Cowes, Isle of Wight) was the queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1837–1901) and empress of India (1876–1901). She was the last of the house of Hanover and gave her name to an era, the Victorian Age.
- Victoria was queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1837–1901) and empress of India (1876–1901). Her reign was one of the longes...
- Victoria’s father died when she was a baby. She was raised by her mother at Kensington Palace and had a lonely childhood until she became queen at...
- Victoria married her first cousin Albert, prince of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, on February 10, 1840.
- Victoria had nine children: Victoria (1840–1901), the princess royal; Albert Edward (1841–1910), who became King Edward VII; Alice (1843–78); Alfre...
17 mag 2024 · To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Centre for Policy Studies and the 10th of CapX, we’ve been republishing CPS pamphlets from our archive. This week, it’s Gertrude Himmelfarb’s 1987 paper ‘Victorian Values and Twentieth-Century Condescension’. In it, Himmelfarb argued that Thatcher’s government truly knew what attitudes drove most Britons, and critiqued the ‘social-control ...
5 mag 2024 · Brexit shook British politics in 2016 and, six years on, its long-term consequences both for the UK and for the European Union remain highly uncertain. Here political scientist and Brexit expert Anand Menon recommends books to help you understand Brexit, what caused it and why, and puts those trends in a wider global political context.
6 mag 2024 · RSPB at 120: the forgotten South American pioneer who helped change Victorian attitudes to birds. S. James Reynolds, University of Birmingham. A group of determined women founded the RSPB, but ...
