The nineteenth was the British century, of industry and empire, the workshop of the world, Waterloo and the Great Exhibition.
And if one were to make hay over the virtues or deficits of nineteenth-century British poetry or twentieth-century Irish poetry, then one should encounter the full range of Tennyson's or Yeats's work before jumping, or slouching, to conclusions.
He has a background in American and British 20th century political history, as well as Middle Eastern affairs.
In the show's final round, she showed deep knowledge about the history of 18th century British boxing.
Also called Pigovian taxes after 20th century British economist Arthur Pigou, they target behavior that harms others.
The sound is said to have frightened 18th-century British sailors so much that they refused to go ashore.
Keynesian economics is a school of economic thought based on the ideas of 20th-century British economist John Maynard Keynes.
Modern fingerprinting goes back to Francis Galton, a 19th-century British scientist who, ironically, helped to pioneer the use of statistics.
Upstairs, in a dining room available for hire, is museum-quality 20th-century British art, including works by David Bomberg, Jacob Kramer and Keith Vaughan.
Prof Dawkins is an outspoken supporter of Charles Darwin, the 19th Century British scientist who laid the foundations of the theory of evolution.
In the 17th century British scientist Robert Hooke took a crack at taxonomy, but his clumsy cloud names ("water'd, " "lowring, " "hairy") failed to fly.
The migration of millions of black South Africans, begun by the British a half century before, had been accelerated by the land seizures of the Afrikaner government.
Sixteenth-century British colonists learned the method, and it eventually spread to the south, the part of the country most associated with barbecue today, around the 19th Century.
In the early 18th century British agriculture turned around, grain became more plentiful, and gin at last became more palatable--though a far cry from what we know today.
Eighteenth-century British leaders knew they needed to figure out longitude.
Inch was an early-twentieth-century British strongman famous for his grip.
"Portrait of a Gentleman" was originally thought to be by 19th century British artist Matthew Shepperson -- but the change of attribution meant it sold for 10, 000 times its original estimate.
Eager to soothe anxious, recession-hit voters, as well as those squeezed by globalisation, politicians have turned nostalgic, talking up old traditions as a response to the anomies of 21st-century British life.
Richard Cobden was a legendary 19th century British businessman.
The 20th century British ceramics collection is claimed to be one of the most important of its kind in the country, charting the studio ceramics movement from the 1920s to the present day.
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Earlier this week a temporary export bar was placed on two works by George Stubbs that gave the 18th Century British public their first chance to see what a kangaroo and a dingo looked like.
Comprising some 130 works by Burne-Jones, Hunt, John Everett Millais, Morris, Rossetti and others of their circle, this is the first major U.S. retrospective of the well-beloved but highly debated legacy of 19th-century British art.
Soon the British were producing their own gin, though a shortage of grain meant that they literally had to make the stuff from hogwash at first. (It tasted awful.) In the early 18th century British agriculture turned around, grain became more plentiful and gin became more palatable, though a far cry from what we know today.
Start at the top at Kochi--or Cochin, as it used to be known--a sleepy Macau-like port where the Portuguese set up trading depots in the 16th century until they were pushed out by the Dutch in 17th century. (They, in turn, were shoved aside by the British in the 18th century.) For the best views of the city, take a ride on a wooden launch.
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In the 17th century our British overlords didn't dream the colonies would become hotbeds of individual land-ownership.
And so well into the 19th century, British men still had the right to demand the wager of battle.
His father, an Omani, was the Governor here for over a quarter of a century under British colonial rule.
Then, in the early twentieth century, British colonial authorities imposed a tax on the Zulus that had to be paid in cash.
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