After all sex might have played little or no role in the way the Victorians thought about love. True love was spiritualised love and sex was not a way to demonstrate and sustain it. Consequently, many women supported the idea of spiritualised love as a basis of marriage as it gave them...
he researched how much the Victorians knew about dynamite. He admits that he “may have bent some rules in terms of chronology there,” but since dynamite was invented by Alfred Nobel in 1866, George is on pretty solid ground, it seems. ...
Even in the 21st century in schools pupils sit in rows like the Victorians. You can only talk to the person next to you (this is probably why the teachersmake us sit in rows); this means that in discussion work which is extremely important in today’s society ideas and suggestions don’...
and further advanced his reputation withThe Europeansthat same year. In England he was promptly taken up by the leading Victorians and became a regular atLord Houghton’s breakfasts, where heconsortedwith Alfred Tennyson, William Gladstone,Robert Browning, and others. A great social lion, James ...