VICTORIAN AGE

  • Battle of Omdurman: Britain's last battle involving a cavalry charge. About it, a young Winston Churchill said: "Our victory was disgraced by the inhuman slaughter of the wounded."


  • Britain, During Victorian Times: Life in Victorian Britain - (click on "Queen Victoria's government," first paragraph, for an in-depth tour at the UK National Archives)


  • British Attitudes Toward America, Mid-1850s: Frequently unfavorable - (see second paragraph)


  • Caldecott, Randolph: Victorian illustrator of children's books - (click on links, third paragraph to end, to view examples of his work)


  • Charge of the Light Brigade: A misunderstood order ends in disaster during the Crimean War - (click on "War," first paragraph)


  • Children, Victorian Britain: Quality of life depended on social standing - (click on "governesses," second paragraph)


  • Churchill, Winston Spencer: Born during Victoria's reign, his reaction to battlefield brutality changed his perception of war


  • Class Distinctions: Social classes did not mix


  • Cotton-Industry Entrepreneurs: Impact of the cotton industry in Britain - (click on "fortunes," first paragraph


  • Crimean War: The first photographic journalist, to be embedded with troops, made history in this conflict between Russia (on the one hand) and Britain, France and Turkey (on the other) - click on "Crimean" in the first paragraph


  • Dickens, Charles: Popular writer whose childhood fears and experiences fill his Victorian-Age books - click on "at the time" in the last paragraph to explore many facets of his life and work


  • Dress, Victorian Age: A video recreation shows us how people dressed in Victorian Britain - (click on "affectionate companion," third paragraph)


  • East India Trading Company: What Hong Kong, Sinapore, Elihu Yale (namesake of Yale University) and Captain Kidd have in common


  • East India Trading Company: Dissolved during Victoria's reign


  • El Obeid, Massacre at: The Mahdi and his Sudanese forces resist Egyptian control


  • Empire, British: Near its end, British holdings abroad were so significant that "the sun never set" on Victoria's empire


  • Egypt, as British Protectorate: Britain's domination, beginning in 1882, led to problems elsewhere in Africa


  • Industrial Revolution: Beginnings, when Britain processed raw materials (like cotton) from India - (see third paragraph)


  • Industrial Revolution: Impact on Britain - (click on "Victorian Britain," last paragraph)


  • Isle of Wight, Osborne House: Queen Victoria's country estate - (see fifth paragraph from the bottom)


  • Khartoum, Siege of: British forces in trouble in the Sudan


  • Jack the Ripper: The killer who terrorized Victorian London


  • Lake District: Saved from development by Victorian-age Brits - (take a virtual field trip to one of Britain's most beautiful areas)


  • Linnean Society of London: Scientific association which disallowed female memberships during the Victorian Age - (see paragraphs five and six)


  • London, During Victorian Age: To see the city, and how it appeared when Charles Dickens was a Victorian writer, click on "at the time" in the last paragraph


  • Merchandising, Victorian Toys: Beatrix Potter was ahead of her time in creating, and marketing, spin-off products - (see fourth paragraph)


  • Nurseries: Importance in a wealthy Victorian home - (click on "in the nursey," fourth paragraph)


  • Parental Approval, Requirements: Restrictions on teens and young adults - (see paragraphs two and three)


  • Potter, Beatrix: Children's author, product of the Victorian Age


  • Potter, Beatrix: Victorian stories animated with modern-age media - (click on "the animals" and "were real," fifth paragraph)


  • Resolute, HMS: The incredible story of the stuck-in-ice ship which survived - then traveled nearly 1200 miles without a crew


  • Sepoy Mutiny: Also referred to as India's First War of Independence, led to dissolution of the East India Company during Victoria's reign - (see fourth paragraph)


  • Social Concerns: Balancing social issues with creating wealth during Victorian times - (click on "cotton," first paragraph)


  • Victoria's Accession: What life was like in 1837


  • Victoria, Empress of India: The queen added this title on the first of January, 1877 - click on "Empress of India," first paragraph


  • Whaling, During the Victorian Age: An entire industry was built around whales whose oil was used (among other things) for lamps - (see tenth paragraph, especially "the whaling industry" link)


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