Posts in The Copybook tagged ‘Victorian Era’
Unknown Artist, via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
In 1837 William Sterndale Bennett, then regarded as England’s most exciting young composer, made history in quite another... field.
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From an engraving by DJ Pound, via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domaon
Acclaimed in Germany as a composer on a par with Mendelssohn himself, Bennett sacrificed his life and talents for music in Britain.
From Grace’s Guide. Licence: None stated (public domain assumed).
Sixteen-year-old John Wesley Hackworth brought a locomotive over to St Petersburg, and Russia’s railway revolution was ready for the off.
© David Dixon, Geograph. Licence: CC-BY-SA 2.0.
J. S. Mill argues that free trade has done more to put an end to war than any political union or military alliance.
© Andy F, Geograph. Licence: CC-BY-SA 2.0.
Samuel Smiles explains why the London and Birmingham Railway was an achievement superior to the Great Pyramid of Giza.
From the US National Archives and Records Administration, via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain. (Note: this is Richard Cobden, not ‘Richard Corden’ as given by NARA.)
Victorian MP Richard Cobden believed British politicians supporting the slave-owning American South had been led a merry dance.