Macramé was most popular in the Victorian era.

He organized the Great Exhibition as a celebration of modern industrial technology and Victorian design.

This was a period in which the Victorian era was sometimes ridiculed as being naïve and backward.

The plot is set in a fictional Victorian era village in Europe.

In 2009, the yellow ribbon was used during the appeal for those affected by the 2009 Victorian bushfires.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning ( 6 March 1806 29 June 1861) was one of the most prominent English poets of the Victorian era.

Historically insect collecting has been widespread and was in the Victorian age a very popular educational hobby.

But the thing that was true, the expo was about the future of cities, and particularly the Victorians pioneered integrating nature into the cities.

Ltd. Davis, Mike, Late Victorian Holocausts El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World , London, Verso, 2002 (Excerpt online.

United Kingdom In the UK, during the Victorian Era, there was a fashion for public buildings to feature highly ornate architecture.

The British built Rangoon was, of course, the Victorian colonizer s response to what Lewis called the unsubstantial glories of Mandalay.

During the Victorian period and until the Second World War when housing changed considerably, pantries were commonplace in virtually all American homes.

In 1852 Giles went to the Victorian goldfields, then became a clerk at the Post Office in Melbourne, and later at the County Court.

In the Victorian era, the Elizabethan legend was adapted to the imperial ideology of the day, and in the mid 20th century, Elizabeth was a romantic symbol of the national resistance to foreign threat.

Victorian critics and audiences were drawn to the work of authors such as Charles Dickens and George Eliot by comparison, Austen's novels seemed provincial and quiet.

Back in the heady days of the 1940 s, Mohammed Ali Jinnah rallied a people to nationhood. Despite his Anglophone status and Victorian manners, he carved out a separate homeland for India s Muslims.

(Mike Davis, Great Leap ForwardThe largest famine of the 20th century, and almost certainly of all time, was the 1958 61 Great Leap Forward famine in China.

A daughter of the Victorian reformer and statesman Richard Cobden, she was an early proponent of women's rights, and in 1889 was one of two women elected to the inaugural London County Council.

It is a fear that has echoed down through history ever since, from the Catholic Church cursing Gutenberg s movable type to the Victorian bourgeois complaining of the newly discovered freedom of the press.

One British social critic, quoted by the sociologist Dominique Schnapper, compares the behavior of the French, unwilling to mention ethnic discrimination, with English people of the Victorian era, who refused to talk about sex.

The convention of not naming rape accusers is a relic of the Victorian period, when rape and other sex crimes were being codified and reported in ways that prefigure our own era.

So what we're trying to do is, we're trying to push these technologies towards creating bottom up construction approaches for architecture, which contrast the current, Victorian, top down methods which impose structure upon matter.

The British built Rangoon was, of course, the Victorian colonizer s response to what Lewis called the unsubstantial glories of Mandalay. As he put it, These massive columns now rise with shabby dignity from the tangle of scavenging dogs and sprawling, ragged bodies at their base.

When I began in recent years to insist that the traditional silence and anonymity assigned to rape victims does not protect them, but only perpetuates a Victorian framework in which rapists attack with impunity and victims are asked to carry the shame, my argument was met with hostility.