Posts in The Copybook tagged ‘Victorian Era’
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Ethel Smyth puts on a show for a self-declared music enthusiast.
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George Stephenson was only too pleased to save the Government from its scientific advisers.
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Henry Mayhew, co-founder of ‘Punch’, tells two anecdotes about the Victorian cabbie.
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A fierce Victorian rivalry sprang up between two football teams from the industrial heartlands of the North East.
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Sir John Seeley urged us to cherish our close ties to India and other nations beyond Europe.
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JB Cramer was one of the finest pianists of his day, though his reverence for Mozart made his own music more popular in the drawing room than the concert hall.