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Victorian jellies weren’t just elaborate showpieces—they embodied a deep intersection of food, science, and class. Extracting ...
In the age before warning labels and liability waivers, scientific experimentation often looked like something between a séance and a rave. Case in point: this glorious 1807 illustration from a ...
Victorian Plumbing has said it made good first half progress with revenue up 6 % to £152.7 million in the six months to 31 March.. The bathroom retailer said the performance was boosted by growth of 9 ...
IN a lecture, “A Century of Progress : Men, Manners, Inventions”, given before the Lancastrian Frank-land Society on January 15, Dr. B. F. Armstrong drew a stimulating comparison between the ...
Tasmanian tiger skins and human Aboriginal remains were sent to European museums by the same man. Now, this British museum is grappling with that history.
Victorian government under pressure to implement integrity reforms laid out following release of progress report. Daniel Andrews is being pushed to explain his government's progress in ...
We have believed in Mr Gradgrind for far too long,” Melanie Keene announces at the start of her survey of children’s science writing in the Victorian era.
Science in the Victorian era bore some of the most remarkable advancements made by humans in history. The period spanning 1837 to 1901 is regarded as the era of prosperity and knowledge ...
A Short History of the Progress of Scientific Chemistry in our own Times. By Prof. W. A. Tilden ... has given us separate histories of the main lines of chemical progress during the Victorian era.
By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Colonial settlers of the Victorian era were often complicit in atrocities committed against native populations — and new research is unveiling just how those ...
By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Colonial settlers of the Victorian era were often complicit in atrocities committed against native populations — and new research is unveiling just how those ...