How the Victorians Lived - Shona Parker

The Victorian era is arguably the most exciting and invigorating reign of an English monarch ever, and one of progress on a massive scale. By the time Queen Victoria died in 1901, England was almost unrecognisable. The Victorians neatly avoided revolution, built upon what the Georgians started and turned the country into a political powerhouse which ran the biggest Empire the world had ever seen.Meanwhile, Victorian writers and journalists were observing, questioning, and recording for prosperity... Zobrazit více