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Agnes Arnold-Forster
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume 74, Issue 2, April 2019, Pages 228–230, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/jrz002
Published: 06 February 2019
..., please e-mail: [email protected] 2019 This article is published and distributed under the terms of the Oxford University Press, Standard Journals Publication Model ( https://dbpia.nl.go.kr/journals/pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model ) Victorian Britain...
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Jacob Steere-Williams
Social History of Medicine, Volume 28, Issue 1, February 2015, Pages 82–107, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hku064
Published: 08 September 2014
... This article is about the performance—referring to the projection and reception—of state medicine in late Victorian Britain. Moving away from the lens of the ideas and policies historians have previously explored, I focus on epidemiological and bacteriological investigations of typhoid fever as they were...
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Kathryn Yeniyurt
Social History of Medicine, Volume 27, Issue 1, February 2014, Pages 22–40, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkt046
Published: 11 October 2013
... in Victorian Britain. Her publications (as Kathryn Miele) include an article entitled ‘Horse-Sense: Understanding the Working Horse in Victorian London’, Victorian Literature and Culture (March 2009) and one entitled ‘Learning Empathy in Agnes Grey’, Brontë Studies (March 2008). Her...
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Graham Mooney
Social History of Medicine, Volume 20, Issue 3, December 2007, Pages 595–606, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkm071
Published: 01 December 2007
... Condrau and Michael Worboys recently denied that infectious diseases were part of the common experience of life and death in Victorian Britain and that epidemiological transition in this period was a ‘chimera’. This response argues that their ‘demolition’ of these shibboleths is itself an apparition...
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WALTRAUD ERNST
Social History of Medicine, Volume 9, Issue 3, December 1996, Pages 357–382, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/9.3.357
Published: 01 December 1996
... will be female and male patients' case stories and statistics produced in European lunatic asylums in India and Eng Gender colonialism mental health race social class empire military life lunatic asylums Victorian Britain British India © The Society for the Social History of Medicine 1996 © 1996...
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Published: 24 August 2023
... Raphaelites home soundscape railways realism Victorian Britain Victorians Victorian politics technological innovation social process Victorian economy C5P1 If we want to understand the particular character of the period, rather than resorting to the ideological characterizations of ‘Victorianism...
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Published: 15 November 2022
...This chapter explores how consumerism and leisure transformed Victorian Britain in Consuming Passions: Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain (2006), by Judith Flanders. Consuming Passions covers virtually everything people spent money and leisure on — holidays...
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Published: 16 September 2011
... as an out-of-place and potentially traitorous “native.” Yet he became Victorian Britain's greatest imperialist statesman. As both a writer and a politician, Disraeli sought to counteract anti-Semitism with a positive version—philo-Semitism—based on the idea that “all is race.” As much as any other British...
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Published: 18 September 2012
...This article presents an explanation on Victorian elegy. It shows that Victorian Britain itself was largely characterized as a culture of mourning, and bereavement as a theme was a more obvious touchstone in the Victorian consciousness. In addition, the decline of faith that affected Victorian...
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Published online: 22 March 2012
Published in print: 22 April 2009
...This book examines changing perceptions of sex between men in early Victorian Britain, a significant yet surprisingly little explored period in the history of Western sexuality. Looking at the dramatic transformations of the era—changes in the family and in the law, the emergence of the world's...
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Published: 01 August 2009
...This book returns to the historical moment in Victorian Britain before the invention of the telegraph and the telephone and just at the opening of the Great Western Railway in 1838, a service which sped up mail delivery. The Penny Post had a tremendous impact on daily Victorian life. It became...
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Published: 28 May 2019
... coincidence in the London of the 1860s neatly frames the problem of historical major/minorness. Marx is generally considered a major writer to the extent to which he is excised from the context of Victorian Britain; Ruskin is a major writer only within that context, but rarely treated as major...
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Published online: 19 July 2012
Published in print: 01 November 2007
... to domestic politics, and incorporates an analysis of Disraeli's role in internal tussles over policy, illuminating the roots of the power struggle he would later win against Derby's son in the 1870s. Overall, the book helps provide us with a fuller picture of mid-Victorian Britain's engagement with the world....
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Published: 31 January 2020
... Fabian Imperial War Graves Commission IWGC cemeteries Langhamer Claire influenza epidemic 1918–19 London Merseyside Blitz Grayzel Susan Funerary practice bereavement Victorian Britain reform Great War As Allied troops moved north and east towards Germany in September 1944, a strange funeral...
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Published: 11 April 2022
... Wilberforce Samuel Oxford Declaration Stephen James Fitzjames Christian Observer magazine Temple Frederick Williams Rowland Wilson Henry B Switzerland evangelicalism religion crisis of faith Victorian Britain During his undergraduate years, Venn’s Evangelical sympathies, cultivated within...
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Published: 14 February 1991
...This book is an experiment in comparative economic history. That is, it attempts to apply a model of structural change and fiscal crisis to two critical periods of the past: Renaissance Florence and Victorian Britain, as well as to recent events in the United States. These qre periods of great...
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Published: 21 June 2018
...This chapter focuses on university reform in Victorian Britain. Change was imposed on the universities of Victorian Britain by outside forces, but it was also the outcome of a struggle within the universities. This struggle was most intense and consequential for the universities in Oxford...
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Published: 09 August 1990
...This chapter examines the history of sports amateurism in Victorian Britain. The middle and upper classes devoted a large amount of time to sport, and even the business elite often seemed to be more interested in play than in work. This chapter suggests that the development of new codified kinds...
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Published: 08 February 2024
... regions of Asia and Africa. Nonetheless, two thousand years later, he is regularly claimed by Europeans as a cultural ancestor. This chapter shows how this claim evolved, from early references to Charlemagne as pater Europae to the empires of the Habsburgs and Victorian Britain to a post...
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Published: 21 March 2024
... Duvergier de Hauranne Duvergier de Hauranne Prosper Jaume Lucien political democracy political parties uniformity universal male suffrage Victorian Britain Dupont White Charles Grey Henry George Hare Thomas Lorimer James Mill John Stuart Reform Act of 1867 Britain tyranny of the majority...