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The Victorian era takes its name from Queen Victoria, who ruled between 1837-1901. There were nine British prime ministers during the Victorian era. The Victorians are popularised by famed author Charles Dickens; the technological and social change caused by the industrial revolution; serial killer Jack the Ripper; and the engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Find out everything you need to know about the Victorians here…

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Parachuting monkeys & volcanic eruptions: an extraordinary Victorian zoo. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Lewis Carroll: maker of wonderlands

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Veggie Victorians. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Power dressing: the hidden value of clothes in 19th-century America. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A photograph of Constance Markievicz (Picture by Alamy)

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Constance Markievicz’s fight for a free Ireland

The Eridge Hunt, Boxing Day 1952

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A brief history of Boxing Day

Elizabeth Garret Anderson seated at a desk reading

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Elizabeth Garrett Anderson: the first woman to qualify as a doctor in Britain

Dancers demonstrate the Charleston, c1926. The dance is often associated with ‘flappers’ – newly enfranchised women with bobbed hair, short skirts and supposedly looser morals – and characterised by frenetic up and down movements and swivelling, akimbo limbs. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

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Forbidden dances and deadly marathons: 5 facts about the history of dancing. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The characters Bob Cratchit and Tiny Tim, from Charles Dickens's work 'A Christmas Carol'

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Did Charles Dickens invent Christmas as we know it today?

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Black Victorians: radicals, muses, inmates & aristocrats. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Civil rights campaigner Ida B Wells, acclaimed composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor; and footballer Walter Tull.

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Black Victorians: the hidden Britons who helped shape the 19th century

Perhaps the most charming idea about the origins of the festive tradition of kissing under the mistletoe derives from a Viking myth of Frigg, goddess of love and marriage, and her ill-fated son Balder. (Photo by Jurg Waldmeier/StockFood Creative/Getty Images Plus)

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Q&AWhy do we kiss under the mistletoe?

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Debtors’ prisons: Dickensian horrors or economic successes?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An unhappy looking woman on trial in a British Victorian court. From ‘The Graphic - An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper’ from 4th March 1882. ‘The Graphic’ was published by Illustrated Newspapers Ltd as a rival to ‘Illustrated London News’. (Picture by GettyImages)

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Historical cold cases with Nell DarbyThe mystery of Miss Lamond. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Enslavement, separation & survival: the story of "Ashley's sack". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

sabella Bird Bishop (1831-1904), 1880. (Photo by Elliot & Fry/Royal Geographical Society via Getty Images)

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Isabella Bird: transatlantic trailblazer. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Spiritualism, fairies, and Arthur Conan-Doyle. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Hidden livesVictorian fasting girls

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Victorian visions of the future. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Crimean War: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An engraving of a prison hulk at Deptford, from a c1826 painting. (Photo by: Photo 12/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

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Floating hell: the brutal history of prison hulks

Actor Viola Davis (right) holds a weapon aloft in new feature film The Woman King, inspired by the stories of female warriors in Dahomey

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The warrior ‘Amazons’ of Dahomey

Sly cakes (Picture by Sam Nott)

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Historical recipeSly cakes. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Black History MonthThe slave who stole a ship and sailed to freedom. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Q&AWhy do we say ‘get the sack’?

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Historical recipeRoly-poly pudding. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Anti-Chinese prejudice: from gold rushes to exclusion laws. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Image of Aina Forbes Bonetta and her husband, James Davies (GettyImages-3318942)

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15 minutes of fameHannah Cusworth chooses Aina Forbes Bonetta

Elisabeth von Wittelsbach, c1860, (left) and actor Devrim Lingnau as Elisabeth in Netflix drama The Empress.

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Sisi: the tragic life of the lost and lonely Empress Elisabeth of Austria

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Why we should remember...The pioneering use of ether. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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