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The 1890s (pronounced "eighteen-nineties") was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1890, and ended on December 31, 1899. In American popular culture, the decade would later be nostalgically referred to as the "gay nineties" ("gay" meaning carefree or cheerful). In the British Empire, the 1890s epitomised the late ...
15 May – new elected county councils in Scotland, created by the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1889, take up their powers. The County of Edinburgh formally adopts the title Midlothian; the formerly administratively separate counties of Ross and Cromarty are merged; and the Shetland county council formally adopts the spelling Zetland.
Life for the poor was immortalized by Charles Dickens in such novels as Oliver Twist. One of the most famous events of 19th-century London was the Great Exhibition of 1851 . Held at The Crystal Palace , the fair attracted visitors from across the world and displayed Britain at the height of its imperial dominance.
The Ordnance Survey Great Britain County Series maps were produced from the 1840s to the 1890s by the Ordnance Survey, with revisions published until the 1940s. The series mapped the counties of Great Britain at both a six inch and twenty-five inch scale with accompanying acreage and land use information.
1890s in England (16 C, 3 P) 1890s in Ireland (16 C, 12 P)-1890s in the British Empire (41 C) 1890s in the Crown Dependencies (8 C) / 1890s disestablishments in the ...
Yorkshire is a historic county of England, centred on the county town of York.The region was first occupied after the retreat of the ice age around 8000 BC. During the first millennium AD it was inhabited by celtic Britons and occupied by Romans, Angles and Vikings.
The elections were the first following the Local Government Act 1888 (51 & 52 Vict. c. 41), which had established county councils and county borough councils in England and Wales. Prior to the act there had been no elected body at the county level, with counties being governed by justices of the peace in Quarter Sessions. [3]
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