Queen Victoria ruled the United Kingdom from 1837 - 1901. The Victorian period was a period of great social change in England, and of an expanding empire abroad. There were lots of new discoveries ...
Victorian farmer John White with his wife Sophie ... boxes" before being digitised into a 2,000-page readable file. The period depicted covered the effects of the 1846 repeal of the Corn Laws ...
In the 1850s, 100 piers stretched out from the British coastline. They were feats of engineering in the Victorian era, using the latest design and technology to create walkways out to sea.