The names Queen Victoria herself chose for her sons include stylish 1800s boy names like Albert, Arthur, Ernest, Leopold and Duncan. More unusual choices among the Victorian royal baby names include Leopold, Ewart, Temple, Cecil and Feodore. Biblical names for boys were also very popular in...
Following the writer’s conviction, Constance changed their sons last name to Holland and got her husband to relinquish his rights to the boys. Today, there is a blue plaque commemorating Wilde’s residence at the house. –34 Tite Street, Chelsea, SW3. Nearest station: Sloane Square. St ...
(see Taylor &Harper 2003: 267-96), there are ritual communi-cations that need to be undertaken when girls and boys are going outtogether: the goodnight text sent from a boy to a girl last thing at nightis now a social requirement, for example. Failure todeliver the mes-sage results in...
Here follow some place names embodying old stories. The late Dr Robert Fulton told me the first. He said ‘As the story of how Filleul St got its name has not so far appeared in print I detail it here, for I had it from my father James Fulton. In the fifties he and his brother...
Le Page's Liquid Glue / She's Got Him Now Boys! Image of Vicotian parlor courtship turned funny, with great text in border, like: "She's got him now boys!" Lady says, "I've found a way at last, dear George, to make you STICK at home evenings." Good reverse advertising. FRESH...
July 1887, Hollender and Cremetti, as their firm was known, held an exhibition at the Cutlers Hall, Church Street, Sheffield, comprising of British and Continental artists works[8]. Regularly touring the country with their pictures, the firm had, according to this last report, already made,...
000 people by the last decades of the nineteenth century. Many older people made use of combinations of these three sources of income, for example, being looked after by their offspring while at the same time receiving a cash payment from the Poor Law Union. For the purposes of this paper...
“The discoveries of Pfitzner and Kawaguchi were at last made use of. An intensive propaganda against viviparous reproduction …” “Perfect!” cried Fanny enthusiastically. She could never resist Lenina’s charm for long. “And what a perfectlysweetMalthusian belt!”[17] ...
“informal” empire was more profitable, if more risky, than investing at home. But it also contributed to domesticobsolescence, particularly in the old industries. Thus, ultimately, there was a price to pay for imperial glory. During the last 20 years of peace before 1914, when Britain’s ...
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