BLACK BRITISH STUDIES IN THE VICTORIAN PERIOD

London Calling: GIS, VR, and the Victorian Period

The Bolles Collection of Tufts University represents a comprehensive and integrated collection of sources on the history and topography of Victorian London. Texts, images, maps, and three-dimensional reconstructions are all interconnected forming a body of material that transcends the limits of print publication and exploits the flexibility of the electronic medium. The Perseus Digital Library ...

The Place of the rubaiyat in victorian Poetry

SECTION OF MEDICAL HISTORY IN THE BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION (Victorian Branch).

THIs flourishing society, which was founded in 1948, is closely associated with the Medical School Library. In the course of the reorganization of the Library which took place after the war it was discovered that the collection contained a number of the classics of medicine. Interest thus awakened was fostered by the Librarian, Mrs. Lilian Sargeant, and by Professor Arnold Sorsby, who is at the...

evaluation of sadr eminence in safavid period

چکیده: یکی از دوره های مهم تاریخی ایران به لحاظ تأمین استقلال ملی مذهبی و حتی تأثیر آن بر فرهنگ و مذهب ایرانیان، دوره صفویه است. رسمیت دادن و رواج مذهب شیعه توسط شاه اسماعیل اول، یکی از مهمترین اقدامات این دولت محسوب می شود. بنابراین برای اجرای این سیاست، وی منصب صدارت را به عنوان منصبی مذهبی- حکو متی ایجاد کرد .این منصب از دوره ی تیموریان ایجاد شده بود ولی در اواخر این دوره اهمیت بیشتری یافت...

The Efficiency of the Victorian British Railway Network: A Counterfactual Analysis

This study of the evolution of the British railway network, 1825–1914, investigates claims that the network was over-capitalised due to excessive duplication of lines. A counterfactual network is constructed to represent the most efficient alternative network that could have been constructed given what was known at the time. Comparison of the actual and counterfactual networks suggests that the...