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Victorian Ministers For The Environment
Victorian or Victorians may refer to: 19th century * Victorian era, British history during Queen Victoria's 19th-century reign ** Victorian architecture ** Victorian house ** Victorian decorative arts ** Victorian fashion ** Victorian literature ** Victorian morality ** Victoriana ** ''The Victorians'', a 2009 British documentary about the Victorian era Demonyms * Victorian, a resident of the state of Victoria, Australia * Victorian, a resident of the provincial capital city of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada Other * RMS ''Victorian'', a ship * Saint Victorian (other), various saints * Victorian (horse) * Victorian Football Club (other), either of two defunct Australian rules football clubs See also * Neo-Victorian, a late 20th century aesthetic movement * Queen Victoria * Victoria (other) Victoria most commonly refers to: * Queen Victoria (1819–1901), Queen of the United Kingdom and Empress of India * Victoria (state), a state of Austra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victorian Era
In the history of the United Kingdom and the British Empire, the Victorian era was the reign of Queen Victoria, from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901. Slightly different definitions are sometimes used. The era followed the Georgian era and preceded the Edwardian era, and its later half overlaps with the first part of the ''Belle Époque'' era of continental Europe. Various liberalising political reforms took place in the UK, including expanding the electoral franchise. The Great Famine (Ireland), Great Famine caused mass death in Ireland early in the period. The British Empire had relatively peaceful relations with the other great powers. It participated in various military conflicts mainly against minor powers. The British Empire expanded during this period and was the predominant power in the world. Victorian society valued a high standard of personal conduct across all sections of society. The Victorian morality, emphasis on morality gave impetus to soc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victoria, British Columbia
Victoria is the capital city of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of British Columbia, on the southern tip of Vancouver Island off Canada's Pacific Ocean, Pacific coast. The city has a population of 91,867, and the Greater Victoria area has a population of 397,237. The city of Victoria is the seventh most densely populated city in Canada with . Victoria is the southernmost major city in Western Canada and is about southwest from British Columbia's largest city of Vancouver on the mainland. The city is about from Seattle by airplane, Harbour Air Seaplanes, seaplane, ferry, or the Clipper Navigation, Victoria Clipper passenger-only ferry, and from Port Angeles, Washington, Port Angeles, Washington (state), Washington, by ferry across the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Named for Queen Victoria, the city is one of the oldest in the Pacific Northwest, with British settlement beginning in 1843. The city has retained a large number of its historic buildings, in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queen Victoria
Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until Death and state funeral of Queen Victoria, her death in January 1901. Her reign of 63 years and 216 days, which was List of monarchs in Britain by length of reign, longer than those of any of her predecessors, constituted the Victorian era. It was a period of industrial, political, scientific, and military change within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United Kingdom, and was marked by a great expansion of the British Empire. In 1876, the British parliament voted to grant her the additional title of Empress of India. Victoria was the daughter of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn (the fourth son of King George III), and Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. After the deaths of her father and grandfather in 1820, she was Kensington System, raised under close supervision by her mother and her Comptrol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neo-Victorian
Neo-Victorianism refers to a contemporary cultural, aesthetic, and literary movement that engages with, reimagines, and rewrites the literature, history, and aesthetics of the Victorian period. Emerging prominently in the late 20th century, Neo-Victorianism is characterized by its revisionist approach to Victorian values, its interest in marginalized voices, and its use of postmodern narrative techniques such as pastiche, metafiction, and intertextuality. This movement spans literature, film, television, fashion, and visual arts and reflects on the past to simultaneously make a commentary on present-day concerns related to gender, class, empire, sexuality, and trauma. In arts and crafts Examples of crafts made in this style would include push-button cordless telephones made to look like antique wall-mounted phones, CD players resembling old time radios, Victorianesque furniture, and Victorian era-style clothing. In neo-romantic and fantasy art, one can often see the ele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victorian Football Club (other)
Victorian Football Club can refer to either of two defunct Australian rules football clubs: * Victorian Football Club (South Australia), a defunct Australian rules football club based in Adelaide, South Australia * Victorian Football Club (Western Australia), a defunct Australian rules football club based in Perth, Western Australia {{dab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victorian (horse)
Victorian (1925–1934) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse that was bred in Kentucky. He was bred and raced by Harry P. Whitney and is best known as the winner of the 1928 Preakness Stakes in which he was ridden by future Hall of Fame jockey Sonny Workman. New owners In April 1929 the Warm Stable racing partnership of Silas Mason and Arnold Hanger purchased Victorian from Harry Whitney as part of a three-horse deal. A four-year old at the time, he was acquired primarily for breeding purposes. For the Warm Stable, Victorian raced into 1930 under trainer J. Thomas Taylor. Among his wins, he captured the 1929 W. P. Burch Memorial Handicap at Bowie Race Track and in 1930 the Agua Caliente Handicap in Tijuana, Mexico, which carried a guaranteed purse of $100,000, an amount second only to that offered to the winner of the Belmont Futurity Stakes. When his racing career ended, Victorian proved reasonably successful as a sire while standing at Silas Mason's Duntreath Farm i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint Victorian (other)
Saint Victorian(us) may refer to: * Victorian, Frumentius and Companions, 5th-century North African martyrs * Victorian of Asan, 6th-century Spanish saint {{hndis, Victorian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RMS Victorian
RMS ''Victorian'' was the world's first Steam turbine#Marine propulsion, turbine-powered ocean liner. She was designed as a Transatlantic crossing, transatlantic liner and Packet boat#Mail steamer, mail ship for Allan Line Royal Mail Steamers, Allan Line and launched in 1904. ''Victorian'' was built in Belfast. She had a sister ship, ''SS Drottningholm, Virginian'', which was built in Scotland and launched four months later. Throughout the World War I, First World War ''Victorian'' was an Armed merchantman#Armed merchant cruisers, armed merchant cruiser (AMC). In 1918 she also carried cargo and troops. In 1920, she returned to civilian service with the CP Ships, Canadian Pacific Steamship Company, but in 1921, the British Government chartered her as a Troopship, troop ship. In 1922, Canadian Pacific renamed her ''Marloch''. She was scrapped in 1929 after a quarter of a century of successful service. Background Charles Algernon Parsons, Charles Parsons had demonstrated the spee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victoria, Australia
Victoria, commonly abbreviated as Vic, is a state in southeastern Australia. It is the second-smallest state (after Tasmania), with a land area of ; the second-most-populated state (after New South Wales), with a population of over 7 million; and the most densely populated state in Australia (30.6 per km2). Victoria's economy is the second-largest among Australian states and is highly diversified, with service sectors predominating. Victoria is bordered by New South Wales to the north and South Australia to the west and is bounded by the Bass Strait to the south (with the exception of a small land border with Tasmania located along Boundary Islet), the Southern Ocean to the southwest, and the Tasman Sea (a marginal sea of the South Pacific Ocean) to the southeast. The state encompasses a range of climates and geographical features from its temperate coastal and central regions to the Victorian Alps in the northeast and the semi-arid northwest. The majority of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victorian Architecture
Victorian architecture is a series of Revivalism (architecture), architectural revival styles in the mid-to-late 19th century. ''Victorian'' refers to the reign of Queen Victoria (1837–1901), called the Victorian era, during which period the styles known as Victorian were used in construction. However, many elements of what is typically termed "Victorian" architecture did not become popular until later in Victoria's reign, roughly from 1850 and later. The styles often included interpretations and Eclecticism in architecture, eclectic Revivalism (architecture), revivals of historic styles ''(see Historicism (art), historicism)''. The name represents the British and French custom of naming architectural styles for a reigning monarch. Within this naming and classification scheme, it followed Georgian architecture and later Regency architecture and was succeeded by Edwardian architecture. Although Victoria did not reign over the United States, the term is often used for American sty ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Victorians
''The Victorians'' is a 2009 British documentary series which focuses on Victorian art and culture. The four-part series is written and presented by Jeremy Paxman and debuted on BBC One BBC One is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC. It is the corporation's oldest and flagship channel, and is known for broadcasting mainstream programming, which includes BBC News television b ... at 9:00pm on Sunday 15 February 2009. Episodes Media A book written by Paxman was published to accompany the series titled ''The Victorians: Britain Through the Paintings of the Age''. In his introduction, Paxman acknowledged that the Irish writer Neil Hegarty had played a significant role in editing the book and bringing it to completion. Paxman was praised by academics and figures in the publishing industry for acknowledging Hegarty's substantial contribution. In the book, Paxman wrote that all television is a collaborative exercise, "so it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victoriana
Victoriana is a term used to refer to material culture related to the Victorian period (1837–1901). It often refers to decorative objects, but can also describe a variety of artifacts from the era including graphic design, publications, photography, machinery, architecture, fashion, and Victorian collections of natural specimens. The term can also refer to Victorian-inspired designs, nostalgic representations, or references to Victorian-era aesthetics or culture appropriated for use in new contexts. The term "Victoriana" was coined in 1918, just before a wave of interest in Victorian objects and artifacts began in the 1920s. Another increased period of collecting of Victoriana emerged in the 1950s. In 1951, the Festival of Britain commemorated the centenary of the Victorian era's first world's fair, the 1851 Great Exhibition held at the Crystal Palace. In the 1960s and 1970s, the eclectic character of Victorian era wood type inspired graphic designers like Seymo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
