Victorian Politics and History

A Victorian Scrapbook of Newspaper Articles by George Burgess (1829-1905)

The scrapbook of George Burgess covers most of his working life from about the 1850's to the 1900's and consists of Victorian Newspaper cuttings, mostly undated, and mostly from British newspapers (includes a few American newspaper articles). For historical accuracy poor spelling and bad grammar (and American spellings) in any article is faithfully reproduced in the transcription.

Other Topics covered by the Victorian Scrapbook are: -

[ Family ] [ Health & Education ] [ Humour ] [ Poetry ] [ Politics & History ] [ Religion ] [ Science & Nature ] [ Temperance ] [ Victorian Culture ]

A Compilation of short articles	A Village Maine Law in 1775	Brief History of China	British aristocracy	California Wife
census 1861 - UK Population Tables	census records 1851 and 1861	Census Report	Chronological Table of Events in Ancient History and List of Principal Events in Modern History	Veronica
Deaths of English Kings	Expense of War	Fighting upon his own hook	Franklin and the Barber	Free Labour - Reynolds Newspaper publication of 1850s
How to Manage A Wife by Artemus Ward	Human Food	A Lady	County Rates (1859)	The North London Working Classes Industrial Exhibition (1864)
Men Who Mistook Their Calling	One of the Love Affairs that are Funny, but Don't Pay	Population of the World's Dead	A Dutch Witness	Races and Religions
Sale of Slaves at New Orleans	Sobriety of the Greeks	Statistics of Human Life	The Burning of the Indian Widow	The Cost of Royalty in 1856
The Death of the Queen (Victoria)	The Dullness of Great Men	The Late Duke of Wellington - Wellington and Bonaparte	The National Debt (The Cost of Conflicts and Wars)	The population of London
The Privy Purse of Queen Victoria prior to 1861	UK Government Income & Expenditure in 1865	Unmistakable Evidence

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