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In many ways the tone and composition of government remained heavily aristocratic for much of the reign. Queen Victoria’s prime ministers included four earls, a marquess, a viscount and the younger son of an earl.
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The Victorian age was the first in which childhood was...
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AS SAFE AS THE BANK OF ENGLAND. In an age when sustained...
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At the same time the first large urban cemeteries were also...
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The government had begun to remedy this. In 1818 it had...
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BEER AND TEMPERANCE. Beer was by far the most popular drink...
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Victorian Britain was both the greatest power in the world...
- Child Labour in The Lake District
Many children were sent to work in the mills from the...
- The Dilessi Massacre and a Gothic Revival Masterpiece
It was to commemorate Frederick’s death that Lady Mary Vyner...
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The 1840s (pronounced "eighteen-forties") was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1840, and ended on December 31, 1849. The decade was noted in Europe for featuring the largely unsuccessful Revolutions of 1848, also known as the Springtime of Nations.
7 lut 2006 · In 1841, Britain united the colonies of Upper and Lower Canada into the Province of Canada. This was in response to the violent rebellions of 1837–38. The Durham Report (1839) recommended the guidelines to create the new colony with the Act of Union. The Province of Canada was made up of Canada West (formerly Upper Canada) and Canada East ...
The Assembly passed a motion of non-confidence in the executive and Lord Elgin then called Baldwin and LaFontaine into the executive council to form the government. This was the first time that a government was formed by the leaders of the majority party in the Province of Canada.
The Act of Union was passed by the British Parliament in July 1840 and proclaimed 10 February 1841. It united the colonies of Upper Canada and Lower Canada under one government, creating the Province of Canada.
The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (Italian: Regno delle Due Sicilie) [3] was a kingdom in Southern Italy from 1816 to 1861 under the control of the House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, a cadet branch of the Bourbons. [4]
Two different accounts of the Reich's constitutional history, yielding two rival interpretations of the Prussian constitution, circulated within the government in the 1840s: a teleological one that centred on the conceptual evolution of state sovereignty in doctrines of imperial public law, and a genealogical one that presented the juridical ...
