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THE VICTORIANS AND LIFE IN VICTORIAN BRITAIN
Queen
Victoria - A Life in Pictures
On December 27th 2007 Queen
Elizabeth II became the oldest British reigning monarch, passing the
mark set by her great-great-grandmother, Queen Victoria. Victoria
was born on May 24, 1819 and still holds the record for
longest-serving monarch ever: she ruled Britain and its empire for
nearly 64 years....
The
Victorians and their influence
Or how the Victorians put the 'Great' into Great
Britain!
Isambard Kingdom Brunel's ss Great
Britain
A recent popular poll placed Isambard Kingdom Brunel as the
second Greatest Briton of all time after Sir
Winston Churchill. He was without doubt Britain’s
greatest engineer, and of all the legacies he left to
the world, one of his greatest was the ss Great Britain....
British Fashion through the Ages. Part 4: 19th century to the 1960's
Victorian fashions and styles
The
Ascott Martyrs A true story of 16 indomitable women and their
struggle for justice....
Sir Robert "Bobby" Peel
And why
British policemen are known as Bobbies........
Greyfriars Bobby A touching
tale of devotion......
Jack
the Ripper
Fear and panic stalked the streets of London's East End in 1888 as
five women were brutally murdered.
Victorian Poisoners
Poison
was the first choice for many murderers in the Victorian era - and was
particularly popular with women!
Patagonia - the Welsh 'New World'
The first group of nearly 200 settlers sailed from Liverpool in late May
1865 aboard the tea-clipper Mimosa.......
The Mold Riots
The history of the border town of Mold in northeast Wales is
fascinating in itself; it is however the events surrounding the
summer of 1869 that will record forever the town's role in the social
history of Britain.....
The Rebecca Riots Men dressed as women protesting against English Law in Wales....
Robert William Thomson
One
of Scotland’s most prolific, but now largely forgotten, inventors was
Robert William Thomson. But who was he, and what did he invent?
Cleopatra's Needle
Have you ever wondered why Cleopatra's Needle is on the Embankment
in London, and how it got there? Six men died bringing the Needle to
England - and it wasn't even Cleopatra's anyway
William McGonagall, the Bard of Dundee - the world's worst poet? His
most famous work, The Tay Bridge Disaster, recounts
the events of the evening of 28th December 1879, when,
during a severe gale, the bridge collapsed as a train
was passing over it. Only
a true master could have thought of conveying the shock
of the people of Dundee with immortal lines like:
And
the cry rang out all round the town,
Good
heavens! The Tay Bridge has blown down.......
Living
History Events Diary - The Victorians
Her
Imperial Majesty Queen Victoria, Queen of Great
Britain and Ireland, Empress of India
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of England -
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