Victorian England
About Victorian England
London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of 9.1 million people in 2024. Its wider metropolitan area is the largest in Western Europe, with a population of 15.1 million. London stands on the River Thames in southeast England, at the head of a 50-mile (80 km) tidal estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a major settlement for nearly 2,000 years. Its ancient core and financial centre, the City of London, was founded by the Romans as Londinium and has retained its medieval boundaries. The City of Westminster, to the west of the City of London, has been the site of the national government and parliament for centuries. London grew rapidly in the 19th century, becoming the world's largest city at the time. Since the 19th century the name "London" has referred to the metropolis around the City of London, historically split among the counties of Middlesex, Essex, Surrey, Kent and Hertfordshire. Since 1965 it has largely comprised the administrative area of Greater London, governed by 33 local authorities and the Greater London Authority.
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His penchant for painting voluptuous female nudes did not encourage sales in Victorian England. He was a sculptor, too — one of his very few sculpted works is of a woman communing with a python. It's quite sexy.
from 304: No Such Thing As A Phantasmic Foot, 2020-01-17 at 00:30:27 · read transcript
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Okay. In that case, who the hell is saying this shit? This is Victorian England. Oh, right. Okay.
No Such Thing As A Hedgehog In A Lifeboat, 2026-02-26 · listen
It is time for our final fact of the show. That is my fact. My fact this week is that many of Charles Dickens's readers in Victorian England consumed his works as audio books. This is a fun little detail from a book by Amy Cruz called The Victorians and Their Books.
No Such Thing As A Ham Bag, 2026-05-07 · listen
Starting with you, Stephen. All right. Yes, I have a fact here. There was a make of toilet paper in Victorian England that was so posh, every sheet had a watermark to deter counterfeiters. That if it was so posh, it wouldn't have been called toilet paper, it would have been called lavatory paper. If you remember, toilet is deeply non-you, as is the word posh. In fact, it was probably the make of lavatory paper that was so classy, every sheet had a watermark.
244: No Such Thing As A Fishman, 2018-11-23 · listen
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