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This document forms part of the research materials collected in the 'School knowledge, working knowledge and the knowing subject: a review of state curriculum policies 1975-2005' project. The research was led by Professor Lyn Yates and was funded as a Discovery Project by the Australian Research Council (2007-2008), supplemented by further funding from the University of Melbourne through 2009. Curriculum policies and major education reports collected as part of this project were digitised to preserve as a resource for future researchers and policy makers with the support of the University Library and the Social and Cultural Informatics Platform.

Written by a team of eminent historians, these essays explore how ten twentieth-century intellectuals and social reformers sought to adapt such familiar Victorian values as `civilisation', `domesticity', `conscience' and `improvement' to modern conditions of democracy, feminism and mass culture. Covering such figures as J.M. Keynes, E.M. Forster and Lord Reith of the BBC, these interdisciplinary studies scrutinize the children of the Victorians at a time when their private assumptions and public positions were under increasing strain in a rapidly changing world. After the Victorians is written in honour of the late Professor John Clive of Harvard, and uses, as he did, the method of biography to connnect the public and private lives of the generations who came after the Victorians.

'An insightful and gripping account that will take you into the dark but fascinating world of a Victorian executioner.' - Stewart P. EvansBetween 1884 and 1905 James Billington and his three sons, Thomas, William and John, were responsible for 235 executions in Victorian Great Britain and Ireland. They hanged many notorious murderers, but equally fascinating is the story of the family. Did James really feel he served society and justice, or did this position satisfy something more personal?Billington: Victorian Executioner provides a complete account of the stories behind James Billington's executions, as well as the real man behind the rope - a man whose business was death. This enthralling biography is an exciting addition to any true crime bookshelf

Victorians were fascinated by the flood of strange new worlds that science was opening to them. Exotic plants and animals poured into London from all corners of the Empire, while revolutionary theories such as the radical idea that humans might be descended from apes drew crowds to heated debates. Men and women of all social classes avidly collected scientific specimens for display in their homes and devoured literature about science and its practitioners. Victorian Science in Context captures the essence of this fascination, charting the many ways in which science influenc

An introduction to Victorian sexualities and a survey of current critical methods, these essays emphasize the remarkable variety of Victorian sexuality and the intricate particularity of sexual identities that shaped the way the Victorians thought about themselves. This absorbing collection will energize reflection on the complexity of human sexuality and on the many different arrays of meaning that it has generated

Britain's role in the mid-nineteenth century as the world's greatest economic power was an extraordinary phenomenon, foreshadowed in the Industrial Revolution of the century before and originating from a unique combination of global and indigenous factors.In this study François Crouzet analyses the growth and - in late Victorian Britain - decline of the nation's economy, drawing on an immense amount of quantitative data to examine and explain its development. The book begins with a macroeconomic survey of the period, reviewing broad fluctuations in economic growth and the question of the 'mid-

For some time, there has been reason for imagining that we live in neo-Victorian times. We are awash in restless evangelicals, profligate of stern and apocalyptic advice. We have had praying leaders who imagine that foreigners, usually with beards, require reform and invasion. Celts threaten secession and the Union is extolled. There is much talk of families, education, and the anxieties of class. Our novels grow long and vexed, and even have plots. Historians seek the common reader and write meandering narratives, full of metaphor, which may be purchased at railway stations.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Keywords -- Bibliography -- Introduction to Volume III: A machine age - Victorian writing about inventions and technological things -- Part 1 The march of invention -- 1 Alexander Somerville, The Autobiography of a Working Man [extract] -- 2 John Stoughton, The Palace of Glass and the Gathering of the People: A Book for the Exhibition [extract] -- 3 Michael Angelo Garvey, The Silent Revolution, or the Future Effects of Steam and Electricity upon the Conditions of Mankind [extract] -- 4 Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 'Ode for the Opening of the International Exhibition' -- 5 F. R. Conder, 'The Best Friend of the Working Man' [extract] -- 6 'The World in a Hurry' -- 7 'The Latest Patent' -- 8 A. R. Bennett, On the Telephoning of Great Cities [extract] -- 9 Alfred Russel Wallace, The Wonderful Century: Its Successes and Failures [extract] -- Part 2 Transport -- 2.1 Third-class rail travel -- 10 Railway Reform: Its Expediency and Practicability Considered [extract] -- 11 'Railway Politeness' and 'The Third Class Traveller's Petition' -- 12 D. T. Timins, 'From Roofless Pen to Corridor Coach: The Evolution of the 3rd Class Carriage on the South Eastern Railway' [extract] -- 2.2 Metropolitan underground railway -- 13 J. Hain Friswell, 'A Journey Underground' -- 14 Simon Sterne, 'The Greathead Underground Electric Railway' [extract] -- 15 Fred T. Jane, 'The Romance of Modern London, III: Round the Underground on an Engine' -- 2.3 Tricycle and bicycle -- 16 'Women on Wheels' -- 17 'The Social Effect of Bicycling' -- 18 E. B. Turner, 'Health on the Bicycle' -- 19 Cesare Lombroso, 'The Bicycle and Crime' -- 2.4 Horseless carriage -- 20 J. Munro, 'Carriages Without Horses' -- 21 [H. Cunningham], 'Horseless Carriages' [extract] -- Part 3 Illumination -- 3.1 Gas light and electric light -- 22 'Electric Lighting'.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography -- Introduction to Victorian Material Culture -- Introduction to Volume I: Raw Materials -- Part 1 Animal kingdom -- 1.1 Meat -- 1 Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist: A Parish Boy's Progress -- 2 Arthur Lloyd, 'American Beef' -- 3 Upton Sinclair, The Jungle -- 4 Joseph Conrad, 'An Anarchist', A Set of Six -- 5 Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Herland -- 1.2 Animal products: blubber/baleen, fur, ivory -- 6 Herman Melville, Moby Dick -- or, The Whale -- 7 Elizabeth Gaskell, Sylvia's Lovers -- 8 William Edward Traill, Fur Trade Letters of Willie Traill: 1864-1918 -- 9 Pauline E. Johnson, 'The Cattle Thief' -- 10 Arthur H. Neumann, Elephant-Hunting in East Equatorial Africa: Being an Account of Three Years' Ivory-Hunting Under Mount Kenia and among the Ndoorobo Savages of the Lorogi Mountains, including a Trip to the North of Lake Reudolph -- 11 Thomas Mofolo, Chaka: An Historical Romance -- Part 2 Vegetable kingdom -- 2.1 Agriculture and trade -- 12 Harriet Martineau, 'Maternal Economy', from 'Cinnamon and pearls' -- 13 Mary Kingsley, Travels in West Africa -- 14 Joseph J. Walters, 'Sundry Experiences' -- 2.2 Cotton -- 15 Karl Marx, 'The Labor Process or the Production of Use Values' and 'The Production of Surplus Value' -- 16 Solomon Northup, Twelve Years a Slave -- 17 Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, 'Free Labor' -- 18 [Unknown], 'The Mill Hand's Petition' -- 19 Elizabeth Twining, 'A Lecture on Cotton: Given at the Working People's Rooms, Portugal Street, Lincoln's Inn' -- 2.3 Sugar -- 20 James Grainger, The Sugar Cane -- 21 Frieda Cassin, With Silent Tread: A West Indian Novel -- 22 Claude McKay, 'Two-An'-Six', Songs -- 2.4 Indigo, opium and tea -- 23 Dinabandhu Mitra, Nil Darpan -- or the Indigo -- 24 Zhang Changjia, 'Opium Talk'.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography -- Introduction to Volume IV: The industrial revolution and the mass production of commodities -- Part 1 The context of manufacturing in Victorian Britain -- 1 'Peel's Velveteens' -- 2 George Dodd, Days at the Factories, or the Manufacturing Industries of Great Britain Described [extract] -- 3 Richard H. Horne, 'The Female School of Design in the Capital of the World' -- 4 Image: 'Calico Printing' -- 5 John Capper, 'The Northern Wizard' -- 6 Anon, 'Help for Women' -- 7 Karl Marx, 'The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret Thereof' -- 8 Anon, 'Sewing Machines' -- 9 Lyon Playfair, 'On Patents and the New Patent Bill' -- 10 J. T. Slugg, Reminiscences of Manchester Fifty Years Ago -- Part 2 Textiles -- 2.1 Fabrics -- 11 Edward Baines, History of Cotton Manufacture in Great Britain -- 12 Anon, 'A Day at the Nottingham Lace Manufactories' -- 13 Charles Dickens and W. H. Wills, 'Spitalfields' -- 14 John Capper, 'British Cotton' -- 15 Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South -- 16 Edward Baines, 'On the Woollen Manufacture of England -- With Special Reference to the Leeds Clothing District' -- 17 'The Diary of John Ward of Clitheroe, Weaver 1860-64' -- 18 Image: 'Cotton Printing' -- 19 Image: 'Wool Machinery' -- 20 Image: 'Weaving Looms' -- 21 Anon, 'Honiton Lace' -- 22 William Morris, 'Textile Fabrics' -- 23 Anon, 'French Lace' -- 2.2 Clothing -- 24 Thomas Hood, 'The Song of the Shirt' -- 25 Harriet Martineau, 'Rainbow Making' -- 26 Samuel Sidney, 'A Ladies' Warehouse' -- 27 Mrs Henry Wood, Mrs Halliburton's Troubles -- 28 Anon, 'Gloves' -- 29 Anon, 'A Crinoline Manufactory' -- 30 Edith Simcox, 'Eight Years of Co-operative Shirtmaking' -- 31 Ada Heather-Bigg, 'Women and the Glove Trade' -- 2.3 Carpets -- 32 'Carpets'.