through subscribing for shares, each investor bound themselves to the statutory contract represented by the taxpayer’s Constitution that entrenched a management agreement. This meant there was a ‘oneness of purpose’ in relation to their investment in ...
… But Stevenson's stress on the transformative power of fiction goes to the heart of the Victorian concern with novel reading. It was a practice which could consolidate one's sense of belonging to a particular sector of society, which could reinforce religious or gender norms: which could, ...
He had hoped at first that Home Rule would be carried by an agreement between the parties, but Salisbury had no intention of imitating Peel. Gladstone made his intentions clear by appointing John Morley, a Home Rule advocate, as Irish secretary, and in April 1886 he introduced a Home Rule ...
(11,000 km) of railway were open, some of which involved engineering feats of great complexity. There was as much argument among contemporaries about the impact of railways as there was about the impact of steam engines in factories, but there was general agreement about the fact that the ...