During the Victorian era, industrial and economic growth led to a phenomenal rise in productivity and invention. That sp
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How did Victorians, as creators and viewers of images, visualize the politics of franchise reform? This study of Victori
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Explores the lasting cultural and political impact of this remarkable year Oscar Wilde's disastrous libel suit aga
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In the mid-Victorian era, liberalism was a practical politics: it had a party, it informed legislation, and it had adher
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For artists of the increasingly mechanized Victorian age, questions about the meaning and value of labour presented a se
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“We can begin with a kiss, though this will not turn out to be a love story, at least not a love story of anything like
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New attitudes towards history in nineteenth-century Britain saw a rejection of romantic, literary techniques in favour o
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Newspapers, magazines, and other periodicals reached a peak of cultural influence and financial success in Britain in th
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