Names: and Their Meaning

Why is it called Lloyd's? Why the Green Man? Leopold Wagner traced the origins of everything the Victorians had a name for — countries, tavern signs, flowers, wines, London streets, nicknames and battles — and found a story behind nearly all of them.

Political Nicknames

3 pages in this part of Names and Their Meaning.

Political Nicknames

HE utmost difficulty exists in reconciling the various opinions expressed by different authors concerning the origin of the terms Whig and…

Political Nicknames: Ireland

The Protestants in Ireland received the name of Orangemen owing to their adherence to William III., Prince of Orange, while the Roman…

Political Nicknames: Russian

The Hats and the Caps were the two great political factions in Sweden, so called on account of the French chapeaux worn by the partisans of…

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