Victorian Britain

Examine the strengths and foibles of Victorian Britain with an award-winning professor.

• By This Professor
• 01: The Victorian Paradox
• 02: Victoria's Early Reign-1837-61
• 03: The Industrial Revolution-1750-1830
• 04: Railways and Steamships
• 05: Parliamentary Reform and Chartism
• 06: The Upper and Middle Class Woman
• 07: The Working-Class Woman
• 08: The State Church and Evangelical Revival
• 09: The Oxford Movement and Catholicism
• 10: Work and Working-Class Life
• 11: Poverty and the "Hungry Forties"
• 12: Ireland, Famine, and Robert Peel
• 13: Scotland and Wales
• 14: Progress and Optimism
• 15: China and the Opium War
• 16: The Crimean War-1854-1856
• 17: The Indian Mutiny-1857
• 18: Victorian Britain and the American Civil War
• 19: The British in Africa-1840-1880
• 20: Victorian Literature I
• 21: Art and Music
• 22: Science
• 23: Medicine and Public Health
• 24: Architecture
• 25: Education
• 26: Trade Unions and the Labour Party
• 27: Crime and Punishment
• 28: Gladstone and Disraeli-1865-1881
• 29: Ireland and Home Rule
• 30: Democracy and Its Discontents
• 31: The British in Africa-1880-1901
• 32: Later Victorian Literature
• 33: Leisure
• 34: Domestic Servants
• 35: Victoria After Albert-1861-1901
• 36: The Victorian Legacy