Posts in The Copybook tagged ‘Victorian Era’
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Victorian MP Richard Cobden pleaded for Britain to set the world an example as a nation open for business.
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Samuel Sidney, a Victorian expert on Australian matters, explained how cutting tax and regulation on Britain’s global trade made everyone better off.
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Within little more than half a century a British penal colony turned into a prosperous, free-trade democracy.
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The closure of slave plantations following the Abolition of Slavery Act in 1833 had a curious side-effect.
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George Stephenson argued that his steam engines were solar-powered.
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From performance and composition to instrument-making, Clementi left his mark on British and European classical music.