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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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Love, marriage & wallpaper: the artistic lives of Jane and William Morris. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Around 200,000 freed slaves, like this soldier, joined the Union military in the Civil Wa

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The Emancipation ProclamationYour guide to Abraham Lincoln's proclamation

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Dangerous ideas & scandalous lives: Germany’s first Romantics. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Aina Forbes BonettaQueen Victoria’s Yoruba goddaughter. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Front door of No 10 Downing Street, the official residence of the British prime minister

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From Walpole to TrussLessons from the 300-year history of the British prime minister. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A portrait of a young Queen Victoria from around the time of the first assassination attempt in 1840

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What if…Queen Victoria had been assassinated?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An illustration of fossil hunter Dorothea Bate

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Dorothea Bate: A fearless fossil hunter. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Bridal accessories, including lace gloves and pearls (Alchemia | Dreamstime.com)

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Beyond fashion: 6 accessories that reveal changing attitudes in society, from the Georgians to the 20th century. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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How one woman liberated a notorious US slave jail. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Historian Fern Riddell

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15 minutes of fameFern Riddell chooses Charley Wilson. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Countryside campaigners: four women who fought for our green spaces. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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15 minutes of fameHakim Adi chooses Alice Kinloch. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Gold rushes: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Oscar Wilde with Lord Alfred Douglas in 1893

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From Oscar Wilde to David Irving: 9 landmark libel & defamation cases through history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Reconstructing black lives in the Antebellum South. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A portrait of Moses Roper, the first African-American fugitive from slavery to make a home in Britain

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Moses Roper: the story of an American fugitive from slavery in Britain

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Charley WilsonVictorian transgender working-class man. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The origins of the Conservative Party can be traced to the ‘Tory’ group in parliament which emerged in the last quarter of the 17th century and, led by Lord Bolingbroke (pictured) and Robert Harley, held power during the final years of Queen Anne’s reign. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

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Why are they called Tories?A brief history of the Conservative Party. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

c1400 farmer ploughing a field.

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6 of the most catastrophic weather events in British history

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The vanishing inventor. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An illustration showing the effects of the Fugitive Slave Act,  passed by Congress in 1850. The law aimed to make it easier for slaveholders to reclaim runaway ‘property’ in the free states, and contributed to rising political tension. (Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty images)

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The story of the American Civil War32 key moments in the landmark conflict

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On the streets of 19th-century London. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Alice KinlochPan-African activist. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

October 1876: General Nelson Miles talking with Chief Sitting Bull after the army's defeat at Little Bighorn

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The battle of Little Bighorn: what happened at 'Custer's last stand'?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A portrait of young Queen Victoria wearing a tiara

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The young Queen Victoria’s struggle to gain the throne

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Elizabeth Gaskell: a voice of the Victorians. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Oscar Wilde pictured around 1882.

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Oscar Wilde's tragic end

Robert Louis Stevenson, the 19th-century English poet and novelist perhaps best known for his books 'Treasure Island' and the 'Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

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Robert Louis Stevenson: novelist, playwright, poet, traveller. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

1842 self-portrait of Sarah Biffin

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The armless artist who wowed Queen Victoria. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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