How to be a Victorian

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Wykes, David L. (2005). "Introduction: Parliament and Dissent from the Restoration to the Twentieth Century". Parliamentary History. 24 (1): 1–26. doi: 10.1111/j.1750-0206.2005.tb00399.x.

There has been a lot of tidying up since Irma/Maria but very little progress. Insurance companies are dragging their feet paying out and we don't have enough contractors. Most of us have electricity though. I got mine mid-January. Was kam bei den Viktorianern auf den Mittagstisch, falls überhaupt etwas auf den Tisch kam und was aßen die Arbeiter in der Mittagspause? Von der Unterwäsche angefangen, über die unzähligen Schichten, Dresscodes, die Kleidungspflege, bis hin zu Hüten, Schuhen und die rasch wechselnde Mode. a b c Porter, K; Hoppen, Theodore. "Chapters 1 to 3". The Mid-Victorian Generation: 1846–1886. pp.9–11. Anstey, Thomas Chisholm (1867). Notes Upon "the Representation of the People Act, '1867.'" (30 & 31 Vict. C. 102.): With Appendices Concerning the Antient Rights, the Rights Conferred by the 2 & 3 Will. IV C. 45, Population, Rental, Rating, and the Operation of the Repealed Enactments as to Compound Householders. W. Ridgway. Archived from the original on 11 May 2023 . Retrieved 11 May 2023.Roach, John (1957). "Liberalism and the Victorian Intelligentsia". The Cambridge Historical Journal. 13 (1): 58–81. doi: 10.1017/S1474691300000056. ISSN 1474-6913. JSTOR 3020631. Archived from the original on 2 September 2020 . Retrieved 2 September 2020. It was indicative of the widespread use of this apparatus for female hysteria, and of the Victorian understanding of the ‘illness’ in general, that most of these sets of apparatus came with a ‘vaginal attachment’. on Victorian schools] "Punctuality and obedience were highly desired and valued traits, partly because the ability to follow instructions accurately and the self-control to handle boredom and repetitive exercises were thought to produce good factory workers. If many schools felt like a factory, especially towards the end of the century, it was deliberate. School was meant to be a training ground for life: a rigid hierarchy with strict rules and regulations. Instant submission to those in authority was required of everyone, from maidservant to office worker. The direct and physical lessons that corporal punishment in schools taught those who strayed even an iota from the rules was thought to be valuable preparation for the real world." The author brings an unusual perspective as she has lived as a Victorian, dressed in clothes she made and working as one as a historian for museums, tv and her own research for books. The most surprising conclusion is the change living such a lifestyle brought to her own tastes: Katz, Victor (2009). "Chapter 23: Probability and Statistics in the Nineteenth Century". A History of Mathematics: An Introduction. Addison-Wesley. pp.824–830. ISBN 978-0-321-38700-4.

I enjoyed how Goodman included important topics like child labour and drug abuse, too. It didn't feel like just a list of information from a text book. Plus, there some photographs included, which added to the overall interest of the book. Dieses Buch verdient eine ausführliche Vorstellung, also Ladies, schnallt Eure Korsetts fester, Gentlemen, richtet Eure Bowlers, denn hier taucht man in das wahre viktorianische Zeitalter ein. Nationally recognized written examinations began not with schools but with the Navy in the eighteenth century. They were a resounding success The idea of a meritocracy spread. Exams became a requirement for joining the Indian Civil Service, then a requirement for becoming an army officer, and the idea spread. For instance no longer could anyone casually open a pharmacy - you had to become a qualified pharmacist to enter the profession, and university students leaving college had to sit exams. People with greater application and intelligence started to have more success.Child labour - a terrible stain on the Victorian era; until one recognises the struggle for food, money and heat. Industrialisation killed the wages of cottagers across traditional industries meaning children needed to work to help; and in turn people moved to towns to get better wages and more regular or even some employment; that in turn saw the machine age crave increased hours and more people to feed production that the world's largest empire required; including more children, women and men living near and working in or around the factories. Many people still held to the ancient belief that a woman’s sexuality was latent in girlhood and only ‘awakened’ on her wedding night by her husband. From that moment onwards, her sexual appetite was thought to be lascivious, and greater than that of men. It was in need of firm male control, and it was up to husbands to ensure the carnal discipline of their wife. "

Baigrie, Brian (2007). "Chapter 8: Forces and Fields". Electricity and Magnetism: A Historical Perspective. United States of America: Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-313-33358-3. The transformation of Britain into an industrial nation had profound consequences for the ways in which women were to be idealised in Victorian times. New kinds of work and new kinds of urban living prompted a change in the ways in which appropriate male and female roles were perceived. In particular, the notion of separate spheres - woman in the private sphere of the home and hearth, man in the public sphere of business, politics and sociability - came to influence the choices and experiences of all women, at home, at work, in the streets. Richardson, Ruth (15 May 2014). "Chapbooks". British Library. Archived from the original on 22 April 2022 . Retrieved 22 April 2022. I think what I liked best about the book was how the information gave me context in understanding other things I've read and watched about that period. The details of why women wore what they wore, why they ate what they ate, and just why they acted in such a way. If I were a historian or writing something about the Victorian age, I would keep this book handy as a reference because it gave such a good overview of daily life. Buchanan, R. A. (2011). "Engineering". In Mitchell, Sally (ed.). Victorian Britain An Encyclopedia. Routledge. pp.265–267. ISBN 9780415669726.The old home-made corsets began to dwindle away as more people turned to professionally made equivalents that could enable them to attain a more fashinoable shape. Child Labor". victorianweb.org. Archived from the original on 23 January 2023 . Retrieved 28 April 2023.