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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…

Charles Darwin

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Charles Darwin vs God: did the 'Origin of Species' cause a clash between church and science?

Claudia Jones at the Brixton offices of 'The West Indian Gazette'

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Black British historyBritain's black trailblazers. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A policewoman gives directions to tourists in London in the 1920s.

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“Sherlock Holmes in skirts”: the world's first policewomen. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An allegory of France in 1870

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Franco-Prussian War: the conflict that plunged Europe into a nightmare. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Your guide to...debtors' prisons

Gwrych Castle in Abergele, North Wales

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The history of Gwrych Castle, home of I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here

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

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In pictures: 150 years of the British Red Cross. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Chemist Marie Curie (1867–1934) in her laboratory. She shared a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 with her husband Pierre for their work in radioactivity. (Photo by Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

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Dr Edward Jenner, a British physician, performing his first vaccination on James Phipps, a boy of eight, in 1796. (Photo by Getty Images)

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The history of vaccination: from Edward Jenner to anti-vaxxers. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

George Washington

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Christian Frederick Cole: England’s first black barrister. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Relatives wave off convicts being sent from England

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Famous Victorians: Emily Bronte and Isambard Kingdom Brunel

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7 famous Victorians: from Brontë to Brunel

Queen Victoria

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Queen Victoria’s voracious appetite for food and sex

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Black radical: William Monroe Trotter. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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In profile: Eleanor Marx, daughter of Karl Marx

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The dispossession of Native Americans. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Photo of Abraham Lincoln

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Q&ADid Abraham Lincoln’s beard win him the election?

A photograph of the Tower of London, from the river

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Anne Boleyn, Beefeaters, Guy Fawkes and the princes: a brief history of the Tower of London

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The rise and fall of the Sikh empire. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Life in bondage Formerly enslaved African-Americans sit for a photograph in Virginia, c1850. At that time, 4 million people were still enslaved across the US, as debates around abolition raged on both sides of the Atlantic (Photo by Fotosearch/Getty Images)

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The black abolitionists who shocked Victorian Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An illustration of slaves picking cotton on a plantation. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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David Olusoga"Black history affects all of us – it is British history". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Empire builder Maharajah Ranjit Singh sits astride a horse as an attendant holds a parasol over him. Singh is historically credited with growing his ancestral warrior-clan, the Sukerchakia misl, into a grand imperial dynasty. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images via Getty Images)

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A Sikh tragedy: the Indian kingdom that fell foul of the British empire

Enola Holmes (left to right): Henry Cavill as Sherlock Holmes, Millie Bobby Brown as Enola Holmes, Sam Caflin as Mycroft Holmes. (Photo by Robert Viglaski/Legendary)

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From Enola Holmes to Fanny Dickens: recognising 5 historical women ‘overshadowed’ by their more famous brothers. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An official of the British East India Company riding on an elephant with an escort of foot soldiers and mounted Indian retainers, India, end of 18th century (Photo by Getty Images)

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Queen Victoria with her children and grandchildren

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The marriages of Queen Victoria’s grandchildren: how the dynasty shaped Europe

A suffragette march

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Simon Schama photographed in Hauteville House, Guernsey (Photo by Oxford Films, Photographer Eddie Knox)

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It was the need for witnesses in divorce courts – ones who wouldn’t mind their names being linked to scandals, no less – that partly gave rise to female detectives. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

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Women detectives: meet the Victorian female super sleuths. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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