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  2. Economy, industry, and trade of the Victorian era - Wikipedia

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    "The most obvious and the most distinctive feature of the History of Civilisation, during the last fifty years [1837–87], is the wonderful increase of industrial production by the application of machinery, the improvement of old technical processes and the invention of new ones, accompanied by an even more remarkable development of old and new means of locomotion and intercommunication."

  3. Great depression of British agriculture - Wikipedia

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    The great depression of British agriculture occurred during the late nineteenth century and is usually dated from 1873 to 1896. [1] Contemporaneous with the global Long Depression, Britain's agricultural depression was caused by the dramatic fall in grain prices that followed the opening up of the American prairies to cultivation in the 1870s and the advent of cheap transportation with the ...

  4. Federal Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education

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    The FBISE was established under the FBISE Act 1975. [2] It is an autonomous body of working under the Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training. [3] The official website of FBISE was launched on June 7, 2001, and was inaugurated by Mrs. Zobaida Jalal, the Minister for Education [4] The first-ever online result of FBISE was announced on 18 August 2001. [5]

  5. Ruth Goodman - Wikipedia

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    12-episode documentary series that depicts life on a Welsh farm in 1620. 2006 A Tudor Feast at Christmas Sequel to Tales from the Green Valley. The team recreating a Tudor banquet at Haddon Hall. 2009 Victorian Farm/Victorian Farm Christmas: Six parts to recreate everyday life on a farm in the 1880s at the Acton Scott estate in Shropshire.

  6. British Agricultural Revolution - Wikipedia

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    Today, agriculture accounts for 5% of the world product. But these 5% is the basis holding the rest 95% like a reverse pyramid. The Second Agricultural Revolution created this basis and made possible our industry and other sectors of the modern civilization.

  7. BBC historic farm series - Wikipedia

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    Victorian Farm Christmas, 3 episodes (2009) [8] Victorian Pharmacy at Blists Hill Victorian Town , 4 episodes (2010) [ 9 ] (also featuring Ruth Goodman, this time with Professor Nick Barber, who provided the necessary medical and pharmaceutical knowledge to create safer versions of many of the dangerous remedies used at the time, and Tom Quick ...

  8. Victorian Farm - Wikipedia

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    Victorian Pharmacy was a four-part series in a similar style to Victorian Farm, also made by Lion and shown on BBC Two in 2010. Filmed almost exclusively at Blists Hill Victorian Town , it revolved around a recreation of a Victorian chemist's shop and included Ruth Goodman among its presenters, with Victorian Farm narrator Stephen Noonan ...

  9. Henry Corbet - Wikipedia

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    The period between 1840 and 1880 is often referred to as the period of high Victorian farming. [6] Henry Corbet and John Morton were amongst the leading agricultural editors in Britain and, according to Goddard (1983) both Corbet and Morton were interested in agricultural progress.