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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…

Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, c1870. He was the youngest son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert

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Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany: the sickly fourth son of Victoria and Albert

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The mystery of the vanishing lighthouse keepers. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Mary Anning (Kate Winslet) and Charlotte Murchison (Saoirse Ronan) in Francis Lee's new film 'Ammonite'. (Photo courtesy of Lionsgate UK / See-Saw Films)

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The real history behind Ammonite

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What happened to the Franklin Expedition? The real mystery behind The Terror. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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George Edalji and the Great Wyrley killings: a real-life Sherlock Holmes mystery. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The 1815–46 Corn Laws: your guide to the crisis and why they were repealed

Mary Seacole is best known for her work during the Crimean War, where she cared for injured soldiers. But she was also well-known as a hotelier, traveller and author – a celebrity of the Victorian era. This is a contemporary painting of her

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Mary SeacoleVictorian celebrity, joyful hotelier and Crimean nurse

The 'Iron Duke' steam locomotive with railway workers

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The history of railways in Britain: from the first steam trains to the rail revolution. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A 19th-century depiction of HMS Erebus in the ice, by François Etienne Musin. What exactly happened to the ship and its crew remains a mystery. (Picture by Alamy)

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The Franklin Expedition: what happened on the ill-fated Victorian voyage?

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6 articles about…the Victorian era

An engraving of the thin Red Line, depicting the 93rd Regiment at the battle of Balaklava

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Q&AWhat was the Thin Red Line?

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The big questions of LGBTQ history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning: poet, activist, trailblazer, runaway. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A women drives oxen pulling a loaded wagon train through the Black Hills (in South Dakota or Wyoming) in 1887

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From the real Calamity Jane to 'Madam Moustache': pioneer women of the Wild West. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Dark side of fashion: a 1910 portrait of a woman wearing a hat adorned with ostrich plumes and a stuffed bird. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, owning hats like this was a sign of status for many women. (Photo by ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

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A hatful of horror: the Victorian headwear craze that led to mass slaughter

Otto von Bismarck, pictured on horseback, was instrumental in the creation of a unified German state and was among the most influential politicians of late 19th-century Europe.(Photo by ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

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Otto von Bismarck: a brief guide to the ‘founder of modern Germany’

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Victorian pet cemeteries: animals in the afterlife. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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How slavery fuelled the British empire. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Queen Victoria and her husband, Prince Albert, pictured in 1854. (Photo by Roger Fenton/Roger Fenton/Getty Images)

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Queen Victoria and Prince Albert: what was their relationship like?

Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman to receive a medical degree in the US

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Elizabeth BlackwellThe ‘first female doctor’, who entered medicine to prove a point

Queen Victoria smiling

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Q&ADid Queen Victoria really say "We are not amused"?

Harriet Tubman (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

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Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad: how one woman saved hundreds from hell. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A scene from an early rugby union game

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The history of rugby: when was the sport invented?

The inner courtyard of the old pottery factory at Gladstone Pottery Museum, with its five towering bottle ovens. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)

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History explorerThe Gladstone Pottery Museum. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Annie Gray portrait by Ian Farrell

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Annie Gray“For Queen Victoria, food was a way of exploring the world”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Photo of Queen Victoria

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Queen Victoria: how and why did she become Empress of India?

Alphonse de Neuville's 1880 painting 'The Defence of Rorke's Drift'. The battle was to become a "supreme symbol of imperial heroism". (Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty images)

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The battle of Rorke's Drift: a stand still clad in the "myths of empire". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Princess Feodora (left), half-sister of Queen Victoria (right)

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Princess Feodora: the little-known sister of Queen Victoria

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How oceans shaped human civilisation. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An Australian Sea Shanty band, c1988

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A brief history of sea shanties

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