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| Victoria & Albert: the Railway Age . .
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| Victoria Regina (1837) . . .
married Albert (1840) . . . steady decline in 'royal' influence . . . rapid
expansion of railways . . . Irish famine (1845/46 on) . . . repeal of Corn law
(1846) . . . major emigration from Ireland & Scotland (1847-1861) . . .
Great Exhibition (1851) . . . Meteorological Office (1854) . . . Darwinian
theory (1859) . . . general scientific & medical advance . . . rapid growth
of industrial towns & cities . . . decline of rural population . .
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| Start of rise in mean temperatures to current levels * noted
recovery from depths of LIA had occurred by mid-19thC * widespread retreat of European
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