British Historical Facts, 1830-1900
British Historical Facts, 1830-1900

Author: Chris Cook

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1975-06-18

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 134901348X

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British Historical Facts, 1830-1900 comes as an original and pioneering attempt to provide within a single volume a comprehensive yet readily accessible source-book of facts and figures on the Victorian period.

British History 1815-1914
British History 1815-1914

Author: Norman McCord

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 612

ISBN-13: 0199233195

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This fully revised and updated new edition, extended to cover the period up to 1914, provides the ultimate introduction to British history between the end of the Napoleonic Wars and the outbreak of the First World War.

Public Examinations in England 1850-1900
Public Examinations in England 1850-1900

Author: John Roach

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1971-07-02

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9780521079310

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A detailed historical account of the origins of the modern examination system in England from 1850 to 1900. At the beginning of the nineteenth century public examinations were almost unknown, yet by its end they were established as the most generally acceptable method of assessment and selection; with many they had become almost an article of the Victorian faith, though their objectivity and efficacy were already becoming matters of public controversy. The Oxford and Cambridge honours examinations provided a major source for Victorian ideas of open competition and public examinations. It was seen that this model could be applied to a whole range of educational and administrative purposes. The crucial developments came between 1850 and 1870: major landmarks were the Northcote-Trevelyan Report of 1853 on the Civil Service, the foundation of the Oxford and Cambridge Local Examinations of 1857 and 1858, and Gladstone's introduction in 1870 of open competition into the Home Civil Service.

A Brief Survey of British History (1899)
A Brief Survey of British History (1899)

Author: George Townsend Warner

Publisher: Kessinger Publishing

Published: 2008-06-01

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 9781436563796

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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Dirty Old London
Dirty Old London

Author: Lee Jackson

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2014-01-01

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 0300192053

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In Victorian London, filth was everywhere: horse traffic filled the streets with dung, household rubbish went uncollected, cesspools brimmed with "night soil," graveyards teemed with rotting corpses, the air itself was choked with smoke. In this intimately visceral book, Lee Jackson guides us through the underbelly of the Victorian metropolis, introducing us to the men and women who struggled to stem a rising tide of pollution and dirt, and the forces that opposed them. Through thematic chapters, Jackson describes how Victorian reformers met with both triumph and disaster. Full of individual stories and overlooked details--from the dustmen who grew rich from recycling, to the peculiar history of the public toilet--this riveting book gives us a fresh insight into the minutiae of daily life and the wider challenges posed by the unprecedented growth of the Victorian capital.