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George Pell's appeal bid based on 'false premise', Victorian prosecutors tell High Court

Victorian prosecutors say there is no justification for the High Court to grant special leave for Cardinal George Pell to appeal against his child sexual abuse convictions.




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Man who threatened to kill Federal Circuit Court Judge and Victorian Police Sergeant released on good behaviour bond

A father who threatened to kill a Federal Circuit Court Judge in a late night, expletive-laden phone call walks free from a Far North Queensland court.




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Neale Daniher awarded Victorian of the Year for motor neurone disease advocacy

AFL great Neale Daniher is named the 2019 Victorian of the Year in recognition of his advocacy to find a cure for the fatal motor neurone disease he was diagnosed with six years ago.




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Why Victorian farmers want the NSW Government to cut one of its drought aid measures

A Victorian dairy lobby group calls for the New South Wales Government to stop subsidising the cost of transporting fodder.




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Relaxing Victorians: Casual Wear From Unseen to Seen to Seen by Only a Few ~ Wrappers & Peignoirs & Dressing Gowns to Morning Dresses & Tea Gowns to Lingerie from Gail Carriger


One of the things the Victorian era saw, Fashionable Reader, was an exploration of that liminal space through casual around the house wear.

Wrapper 1855  The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Here we have the wrapper that was only meant to be seen by family.

Dressing Gown  early 1870s The Metropolitan Museum of Art


Dressing Gown  1875  The Kyoto Costume Institute

 Dressing gowns, banyans and wrappers are often quilted all or in part.

Wrapper early 1860s  The Metropolitan Museum of Art

One of the signs of a wrapper is that the waist is designed to be loose or tied tight. Often they split up the front, like a carriage dress or a robe so they can be pulled over a nightgown or underpinnings, like a dressing down but slightly more tailored. Still NOT designed to be worn over a corset.


Peignoir 1860-1865  The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Peignoir  1880s  The Metropolitan Museum of Art

 Peignoir seems to be a catch all term.

Morning Dress  1860  The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Morning dresses were initially gowns for the breakfast table that did not require a corset.They're characterize by a looser top lots of details in the neck and sleeves.

Morning Dress  1872-1873  The Metropolitan Museum of Art

One of the things we see evolving (and limits being tested) after the 1950s through the 1900s is the idea of what was not meant to be seen (undergarments and nightgowns) to what was initially only meant to be seen by family or lovers (wrappers & peignoirs) to receiving casual around house guests at breakfast (morning dresses) to I'm comfortable at home and I want to show my wealth with yet another space & occasion specific outfit (the tea gown).

Tea Gown  late 1870s  The Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Tea gowns were an evolution of the morning gown.

Tea Gown  1875  The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Tea Gown  1875-1880  The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1Harpers Bazar New York Sat June 13 1891 Dressing Gowns Nightshirts

This evolution is coupled with the rise of the middle class, the sexual revolution (including contraception and woman's suffrage) and various other factors.

Bed Jacket  1885  The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Dressing Jacket  1885-1890  The Metropolitan Museum of Art

 We see a culmination in this towards the turn of the century in the popularity of (and wide-scale use of the word) negligées and lingerie sets, which specifically implies an article of clothing that is sexual in its nature for it is meant to be seen by a lover.

Negligée  1880  The Metropolitan Museum of Art

This kind of clothing, prior to the first sexual revolution, would not have been acceptable for a fashion house to make, let alone a fashionable lady to purchase.

Negligée Callot Soeurs, 1898-1900s The Metropolitan Museum of Art


Lingerie Set  1880s  The Metropolitan Museum of Art

There was also head wear that was designed to be worn exclusively around the house, but that's a whole other story...

House Cap 1900  The Metropolitan Museum of Art

For Primrose!

Boudoir Cap 1895 The Metropolitan Museum of Art

nightgown 1894  The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Dressing Gown  1897-1899  The Metropolitan Museum of Art


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Grade II listed Victorian home undergoes a green renovation

London-based firm Will Gamble Architects has breathed new life into a dilapidated building in the small village of Gretton, U.K. The complex consisted of a Grade II listed Victorian house, a disused cattle shed and a set of ruins of a former parchment factory. Although the project presented several challenges, the architects managed to strategically incorporate the existing structures, as well as several reclaimed materials found onsite, into the new design in lieu of complete demolition.[...]




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Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews announces 175 new tech jobs for Melbourne

State government commits to five-year funding round as software company launches community centre and new jobs.




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Source Murray Model - method for determining permitted take in the Victorian Murray, Kiewa and Ovens SDL resource units.




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The invention of the modern dog : breed and blood in Victorian Britain / Michael Worboys, Julie-Marie Strange, & Neil Pemberton.

Dogs -- Breeding -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.




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US biotech injects 3D printing expertise into Victorian artificial kidney project

San Diego-based biotechnology company, Organovo Holdings (Organovo), has announced a tie up with a Melbourne research institute to help develop regenerative medicine in Australia.




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Victorian suppression of COVID-19's spread 'more successful than maybe we could have even imagined'

Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton reveals theoretical modelling which suggests 36,000 people could have been killed by coronavirus in Victoria if no physical-distancing measures were put in place.




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Opposition accuses Government of scaring Victorians with 'worst-case scenario' modelling

The modelling predicts more than a quarter of a million jobs could be lost in Victoria due to the coronavirus pandemic in what Premier Daniel Andrews says is the perhaps the "biggest economic and employment challenge" in the state's history.




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Spirit of Tasmania to move Victorian operations to Geelong

The company behind the Spirit of Tasmania ferry service says its ships will no longer be docking at Station Pier in Port Melbourne, and will instead move to Corio Quay, north of Geelong.




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Mother's Day visits off the table as Victorian Premier defends coronavirus contact tracing efforts

Premier Daniel Andrews defends the work of contact tracers as 13 more coronavirus cases are linked to a cluster at Cedar Meats in Melbourne's west.




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'Nothing changes today': Victorians must wait until Monday to learn when shutdown measures will ease

Premier Daniel Andrews says his Government will explain changes to the state's coronavirus restrictions on Monday, after the National Cabinet agrees to a three-step process of lifting restrictions to create a "COVID-safe economy".




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Coronavirus cases rise as Victorians wait for restrictions to be eased

Eleven new coronavirus cases are identified in Victoria, four linked to the cluster at Cedar Meats, as infection rates fall in other states. Meanwhile, the Government is urging people not to abandon the restrictions before an announcement is made on Monday.




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Port Adelaide player accuses AFL of Victorian bias over training restrictions

Despite more relaxed coronavirus restrictions in South Australia and Western Australia, the AFL says it does not want clubs from those states training in bigger groups until Victorian teams are allowed to do so.




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Victorian photos of frozen Niagara Falls

Humans have been marveling over this wintry spectacle since long before Instagram.




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Did the Victorians have faster reactions?

Psychologists have been measuring reaction times since before psychology existed, and they are still a staple of cognitive psychology experiments today. Typically psychologists look for a difference in the time it takes participants to respond to stimuli under different conditions as evidence of differences in how cognitive processing occurs in those conditions. Galton, the famous … Continue reading "Did the Victorians have faster reactions?"




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Victorian priest Cardinal John Henry Newman set to make history as he is canonised at the Vatican

Cardinal John Henry Newman is to be canonised at the Vatican in Rome tomorrow. Prince Charles will make speech and woman claiming miracle after praying to Cardinal will be there.




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How sexism blighted history of sex: The Romans entombed errant Virgins and Victorians feared cycling

Kate Lister, author of A History of Sex, makes plain people have always wanted to turn sex 'into a moral issue', with complex social structures and taboos.




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Victorian teacher tests positive to coronavirus as Meadow Glen primary school is closed

A Victorian teacher has tested positive to COVID-19, with the Melbourne school to be closed for three days for deep cleaning and to enable contact tracing.




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Education minister backtracks on comments about Victorian Premier Dan Andrews

Federal Education Minister Dan Tehan has withdrawn remarks he made slamming Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews' leadership over schools during the coronavirus crisis




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Victorian man, dog, and five camels rescued by police after falling from a walking track

The group were connected by a rope and walking through bushland in Jamieson, 200km northeast of Melbourne near Victoria's Great Dividing Range on Sunday.




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Victorian nursing home in lockdown after a member of staff tests positive for coronavirus 

The employee at Grant Lodge in Bacchus Marsh, about 50 kilometres north of Melbourne , was screened for coronavirus on Saturday and all the nursing home residents are now being tested.




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Greenhouses, bedding plants, mowers – they were all born in the Victorian era

British gardening expert Monty Don grew up in a home with a Victorian garden which had circular borders filled with bedding plants and a coke-fired greenhouse.




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AMANDA PLATELL: Evil Victorian 'baby' farmers' tainted my happy home

AMANDA PLATELL: The most unscrupulous baby farmers demanded money up front rather than a monthly payment because it meant they profited if the child died, preferably quickly.




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Holly Willoughby is likened to 'a Victorian school mistress and a NUN'

The TV stalwart, 38, donned a £390 dress from Cefinn, the womanswear line helmed by former Prime Minister David Cameron's wife Samantha, however the dress was met with mixed responses




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Pope Francis makes British Victorian cardinal John Henry Newman a saint

Prince Charles (pictured) lead the UK at the ceremony in St Peter's Square in Rome, where Pope Francis declared the cardinal a saint in front of 20,000 pilgrims.




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London's No 11 Cadogan Gardens Victorian hotel has been revamped

Recently revamped No. 11 Cadogan Gardens hotel in London is filled with old portraits and chandeliers. For food, Tartufo specialises in truffle-infused dishes of exceptional quality.




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Thrifty first-time-buyer, 30, transforms her Victorian home into a glamourous Insta-worthy pad

Leanne Lim-Walker had never picked up a drill before she started work on the huge DIY project at the property in Norwich, Norfolk. She has now transformed the Victorian property.




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Sexual Life In The Victorian Age

A long-forgotten sex survey, has now been unveiled to reveal the sexual life's of the 19th Century Victorian women. The study, laid unread for decades at Stanford University, where the researcher, Dr. Clelia Duel Mosher, worked.It reports that women of that




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Missionary calculus : Americans in the making of Sunday schools in Victorian India [Electronic book] / Anilkumar Belvadi.

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.




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The Metaphysical Society (1869-1880) : intellectual life in mid-Victorian England [Electronic book] / Catherine Marshall, Bernie Lightman, and Richard England.

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.




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The history of Scottish theology. Volume II, From the early Enlightenment to the late Victorian era [Electronic book] / David Fergusson and Mark Elliott.

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.




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Women, art and money in late Victorian and Edwardian England: the hustle and the scramble / Maria Quirk

Rotch Library - N8354.Q57 2019




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Alice in pornoland: hardcore encounters with the Victorian gothic / Laura Helen Marks

Hayden Library - PN1995.9.S45 M27 2018




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Framing empire: postcolonial adaptations of Victorian literature in Hollywood / Jerod Ra'Del Hollyfield

Hayden Library - PN1995.9.I42 H65 2018




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Exquisite materials: episodes in the queer history of Victorian style / Abigail Joseph

Dewey Library - HQ76.96.J67 2019




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The Victorian verse-novel : aspiring to life / Stefanie Markovits.

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.




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Shakespeare in the Victorian periodicals [electronic resource] / Kathryn Prince

New York : Routledge, 2008




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Information for single mothers / Victorian Council of Social Service

Victorian Council of Social Service




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Dante and the early astronomer: science, adventure, and a Victorian woman who opened the heavens / Tracy Daugherty

Hayden Library - QB36.E94 D38 2019




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Victorian and Tasmanian state conventions : [papers]

Taxation Institute of Australia




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Artful experiments: ways of knowing in victorian literature and science / Philipp Erchinger

Hayden Library - Q127.G4 E73 2018




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Kew Observatory & the evolution of Victorian science, 1840-1910 / Lee T. Macdonald

Hayden Library - QB82.G72 L663 2018




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The advance of neuroscience: twelve topics from the Victorian era to today / Lori A. Schmied

Hayden Library - QP360.S35 2019




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Tainted Souls and Painted Faces: the Rhetoric of Fallenness in Victorian Culture.

Online Resource




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Frankenstein dreams: a connoisseur's collection of Victorian science fiction / edited by Michael Sims

Hayden Library - PR1309.S3 F73 2017