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• in Politics
  Is Mankind Becoming Less Violent?
  Steve Pinker in his new book argues that we are, but appears to forget a few things.
  by robeiae / on Jan 20, 2012

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “nineteenth century”

 

• New Grub Street

  
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  New Grub Street by George Gissing was a rather surprising novel. Published in 1891, it is set in the literary world of 1880s London. There are literary feuds, there are writers starving for their art, there is a suicide, there is lots and lots of failure, and there is the up-and-comer who will do whatever he must to ...
  4 days ago

• New Generation Thinkers 2013

  
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  By Gregory Tate The research that went into my monograph was, like most academic scholarship, very specific: it focused on the ways in which Victorian poets drew on, contributed to, and resisted the development of the scientific discipline of psychology in the mid-nineteenth century. However, as is invariably the ...
  1 week ago

• Searching for honest and competent bankers during the Napoleonic Wars

  
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  Guest blog by Dr Anne Murphy , senior lecturer in early modern history What qualities are required of a competent and honest banker? We might be forgiven for thinking that this is a question that never crosses the minds of today’s recruiters. But their nineteenth century predecessors worked hard to find the best ...
  2 weeks ago

• This week’s dress – vivid magenta and an attack of mauve measles

  
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  Magenta dress, Madame Vignon, Paris, c1870. Photo: Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Isn’t this the most fabulous dress? I just love its vibrant magenta colour, it’s so bold and dramatic and sumptuously romantic. I couldn’t wear it though as it would clash horribly with my hair! This gown was made in around ...
  3 weeks ago

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