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Society and culture of the Victorian era refers to society and culture in the United Kingdom during the Victorian era--that is the 1837-1901 reign of Queen Victoria. The idea of "reform" was a motivating force, as seen in the political activity of religious groups and the newly formed labour unions.
In the history of the United Kingdom and the British Empire, the Victorian era was the reign of Queen Victoria, from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901. Slightly different definitions are sometimes used.
Rural Life in Victorian England (London: Heinemann, 1977). The Transformation of Britain 1830–1939 (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1987). A Social History of the English Countryside (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1990). Land and Society in England, 1750–1980 (London: Longman, 1994). Parliamentary Enclosure in England (London: Longman, 1997).
But once it was clear that the United States had the upper hand on the battlefield, the possibility of an Anglo-American war vanished. [14] Fathers of Canadian Confederation by Robert Harris (1885). Her diary entries suggest the Queen had contemplated the possibility of a union of her North American colonies as early as February 1865.
How dinosaurs changed the science and society of Victorian England On Feb. 20, 1824, at the annual meeting of the Geological Society in London, the world was introduced to the very first dinosaur ...
Anglo-Saxonism is a cultural belief system developed by British and American intellectuals, politicians, and academics in the 19th century. Racialized Anglo-Saxonism contained both competing and intersecting doctrines, such as Victorian era Old Northernism and the Teutonic germ theory which it relied upon in appropriating Germanic (particularly Norse) cultural and racial origins for the Anglo ...
Crime and Society in England, 1750–1900 (5th ed. 2018) Fraser, Derek. The evolution of the British welfare state: a history of social policy since the Industrial Revolution (Springer, 1973). Gay, Peter. The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud; Harrison, Brian (1955). "Philanthropy and the Victorians". Victorian Studies. 9 (4): 353–374 ...
Victorian England: the horse-drawn society; an inaugural lecture (1970) at Bedford College LCCN 76-596277 ISBN 0900145048; English Landed Society in the Nineteenth Century (1963); 2013 edition. ISBN 0415848482. Hampstead: Building a Borough, 1650–1964 (1974) LCCN 73-87319 ISBN 0710077475; The Rise of Suburbia (1982) editor LCCN 81-21304 ISBN ...