Victorian era
In the late summer of 1859, Charles Darwin finally completed the last paragraph of his greatest work on The Origin Of Species. But he wasn't drawing his inspiration from the exotic islands...
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As the mournful tones of Chopin's funeral march sounded over the streets of London, on February the second, 1901, a day of much symbolism brought the Victorian era to a close. Edward the...
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Queen Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 -- 22 January 1901) was the monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death. From 1 May 1876, she used...
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Hello my name is Andrew Campbell, welcome to AC Silver This fine and impressive antique Victorian English sterling silver flatware service for twelve persons has been made in the fiddle, thread and...
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Hello and welcome to our new exhibition Love and Death: Victorian Paintings from Tate. We've been installing the show over the last 10 days or so and we are now nearly ready to open so this...
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Jonathan Harker is a... he's a young reporter who works at The Inquisitor which is the big newspaper in London and uh... is sort of struggling to kind of make ends meet. And you meet him at...
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This is an instructional video to guide you through the cataloguing process for those collecting organisations whom have signed up to use Victorian Collections. Go to www.victoriancollections.net.au...
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How do light bulbs work? By any standard, the invention of the light bulb was a real light bulb moment. [Ping!] And it didn't come a moment too soon. Because although we'd known how to...
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The theatre at the National Arts Centre is one of Ottawa's biggest venues. But there are some smaller local stages were a once popular form of entertainment is making a comeback. In the...
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HEAR THE MUSIC OF THE CAROUSEL MINGLED WITH THE RHYTHM OF THE BLACKSMITH HAMMER. MINGLED WITH THE RHYTHM OF THE BLACKSMITH HAMMER. NEARBY THE DELIGHTED CRIES OF BLACKSMITH HAMMER. NEARBY THE DELIGHTED...
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