- Source: Victorian People
- Era Victoria
- Toko serba ada
- Nostalgia
- Hubungan antara agama dan ilmu pengetahuan
- Liberalisme
- Undang-Undang Reformasi 1832
- Charles Booth (pereformasi sosial)
- Jack the Ripper
- Isaac Baker Brown
- Rumah kerja
- Victorian People
- Victorian literature
- Victorian era
- Victoria State Government
- Royal Victorian Order
- Women in the Victorian era
- Victorian morality
- Victoria (state)
- Victorian cuisine
- Bibliography of the Victorian era
Victorian People: A Reassessment of Persons and Themes, 1851-1867 is a book by the historian Asa Briggs originally published in 1955. It is part of a trilogy that also incorporates Victorian Cities and Victorian Things.
Content
Briggs's analysis spans a relatively short part of the Victorian era, encompassing the period between the Great Exhibition of 1851 and the passage of the Second Reform Act of 1867. In particular he focuses upon the involvement of key individuals in the policies and cultural developments of the time. He argues that the period in question was one that had traditionally suffered from a lack of historical scholarship and was interesting in its own right, being the high-Victorian stage marked by a focus upon 'thought', 'work' and 'progress' and a belief in British institutions after the negotiation of the cataclysms and challenges of 1848.
The chapters are as follows:
Introduction
The Crystal Palace and the Men of 1851
John Arthur Roebuck and the Crimean War
Trollope, Bagehot, and the English Constitution
Samuel Smiles and the Gospel of Work
Thomas Hughes and the Public Schools
Robert Applegarth and the Trade-Unions
John Bright and the Creed of Reform
Robert Lowe and the Fear of Democracy
Benjamin Disraeli and the Leap in the Dark
Epilogue
References
External links
Victorian People by Asa Briggs at the Internet Archive