The other day I was searching through boxes of old photographs and came across a bundle of colour negatives which turned out to be photographs that I had taken of the Royal Alexandra back in 1988. It would have been great to have had them when I wrote the blog post on theformer Royal ...
the different machines being driven by steam-power. A lift will travel from top to bottom of the building, connecting with all the floors. As was to be expected in a building of this description, ample provision has been
illiteracy decreased to only five percent in comparison to thirty percent illiteracy of men and forty percent illiteracy of women in 1850. In fact, for the first time the government took control over spreading
English Literature of the Victorian Age 1. The Victorian Period: Chronologically the Victorian period roughly coincides
In earlier ages we witnessed a government which laid stress on royalty and class privilege, the spirit of which was clarioned by Shakespeare in the lines: Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm from an anointed king. In the Victorian or modern age the divine right of...
The promise of underlying order and coherence, of knowability, is held out by fiction, or, as Robert Louis Stevenson put it: “Life is monstrous, infinite, illogical, abrupt and poignant; a work of art, in comparison, is neat, finite, self-contained, rational …”引自The Victorian novel ...
The telegraph companies in particular held that behind nationalisation there was a Government desire to control the flows of domestic news. But let us to consider, from an every-day point of view, the inconveniences which may result from reposing such a power in the hands of the Government....
They, for three times, made appeals to the government, with hundreds of thousands of people’s signatures. The movement swept over most of the cities in the country. Although the movement declined to an end in 1848, it did bring some improvement to the welfare of the working class. This ...
DAMIAN: In comparison to Endeavour or Thursday, Russ once told me that in Riggers’ hands, Strange is ‘a wonderful everyman.’ Do you think this might be why so many of the men in the audience relate to Strange more than other male lead characters in the show? SEAN: If they do then...