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Victorian

Ballerina Margot Fonteyn in a tutu

Q&A Who invented the tutu?

A portrait of Queen Victoria and her family

Q&A Who were Prince Albert’s family, the Saxe-Coburg-Gothas?

Archduchess Ileana’s great grandmother, Queen Victoria, whose birth certificate Ileana desperately needed to get hold of (Getty)

Queen Victoria and the Nazis: the strange tale of the search for the royal family’s Aryan origins

A photo which was believed to be of the Loch Ness Monster

The quest for the Loch Ness Monster

The siege of Sevastopol

Q&A Why did Britain fight the Crimean War?

Bottles of snake oil

Q&A Did salesmen really sell snake oil?

Queen Victoria, her husband Prince Albert, and their nine children.

Q&A Could Queen Victoria have prevented World War I?

An illustration showing interior of the House of Commons

9 things you didn’t know about the history of parliament

A real Peaky Blinder mug-shot

In pictures: what did the real Peaky Blinders look like?

Portrait of Prince Albert, Queen Victoria's husband and consort. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

8 fascinating facts about Queen Victoria’s husband, Prince Albert

Cillian Murphy stars in Peaky Blinders. (Photo by Alamy)

The real Peaky Blinders

The Kray brothers

The A-Z of gangs and gangsters

Queen Victoria with Prince Albert and their children in 1846. After a painting by F Winterhalter. Victoria’s husband, Albert, “carved out for the crown a moral kind of authority as the nation’s first and model family,” says Sarah Gristwood. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

Retaining the royals: why has the British monarchy survived – and thrived?

An 18th-century public execution and crowd

Q&A When did people stop attending public executions in Britain?

Four soliders of the 36th Sikhs, various ranks, 1896. The regiment was led in January 1897 to occupy the Samana posts, says Captain Jay Singh-Sohal. (Reproduced with permission from australiansikhheritage.com)

The battle of Saragarhi: when 21 Sikh soldiers stood against 10,000 men