The authors examined the documentation on which this paper was based by comparing the history of infertility in cases of perinatal death reported to the Consultative Council on Obstetric and Paediatric Mortality and Morbidity and found that there were 214 perinatal deaths with a history o...
leading to hacking, bloody coughs, debilitating lung pain, severe fatigue and extreme anemia. The disease earned several grimly appropriate names: “The Robber of Youth” due to its high mortality rate among young people, “The Great White Plague” and “The White Death,” referring to the ext...
She was the leader of a national women’s political campaign in Victorian England, at a time when women did not have the vote. Shecampaigned on behalf of prostitutes and abused and trafficked womenfrom 1869 until her death in 1906. Against all the odds, she succeeded in repealing a law ...
Queen Victoria took the throne of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in 1837, after the death of her grandfather, King George III, and the deaths of his four potential heirs, including her uncle, King George IV, who ruled briefly. During the reign of King George IV, who ha...
Birth of Victoria. 1820 Death of old, mad King George III. The Prince Regent becomes George IV. 1829 Opening of Liverpool-Manchester Railway, the first railway between two major cities and the beginning of railroad expansion. First police force — the “Bobbies.” ...
However, birth, death and marriage registration established in 1836 enabled to control the age of children accepted to work in factories. The first report of commissioners for children labour in coal mines was published in 1842 written by Lord Ashley (later Shaftesbury, Price, 2013). ...
Pages 153-177 ‘Gone Into Mourning … for the Death of the Sun’: Victorians at the End of Time Darryl Jones Pages 178-195 Back Matter Pages 196-219 Download chapter PDF Back to top Reviews "Victorian Time provides a compelling, informative, and thorough study of Victorian literature...
Pupils would be painted onto the photos to bring “life” back to the dead corpse, which had to be photographed within 24 hours of death before decomposition started to creep in. Most of the subjects were infants and children, who would sometimes be photographed with their favorite toys. ...
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The area gained its nickname in the 1850s due to the Prince’s role in the Great Exhibition and its subsequent purchase and was seen to both celebrate, but also by some, to satirise him. It fell out of use after the Prince’s death in 1861 but was subsequently revived in the 1960s ...