England had suffered extensively from the war by 1147, leading later Victorian historians to call the period of conflict "the Anarchy".

Bulmer was a Victorian historian, surveyor, cartographer and compiler of directories.

"The dismal science" is a derogatory alternative name for economics devised by the Victorian historian Thomas Carlyle in the 19th century.

By the 19th century Victorian historians incorrectly concluded that the etymology of the words "keep" and tenazza were linked, and that all keeps had fulfilled this military function.

J. W. Burrow A Liberal Descent: Victorian historians and the English past (1981, paperback edition 1983).

The war, termed the Anarchy by Victorian historians, dragged on and degenerated into stalemate.

This destruction lead to Victorian historians terming the conflict the period of "the Anarchy".

Victorian and Edwardian historians had rarely addressed this question, but in 1948 historian John Harvey challenged what he perceived as "the conspiracy of silence" surrounding Richard's homosexuality.

The Victorian historians who described the helmet often referred to it as a "pig-faced" helmet, although that term was not used in the Medieval period.

Victorian historians even attributed the early death of Baltasar to debauchery, encouraged by the gentlemen entrusted by the king with his education.