Let’s learn more about this fascinating period of history in our Victorian facts… Victorian facts 1) The Victorians were the people who lived during the reign of Queen Victoria, from the 20 June 1837 until the date of her death on the 22 January 1901. It was an era of exciting ...
Today “Victorian” connotes a prudish refusal to admit theexistence of sex, hypocritically combined with constant discussions of sex, thinly veiled as a series of warnings. There is some truth to both sides of thisstereotype. Some few educated Victorians did write a lot about sex, includingpor...
More access made British cultural products more important. Not only did they reveal much about the society from which they emerged, but during the Victorian period Britain was the cultural capital of the English-speaking world (including the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand). Vic...
The only son of the engineer and inventorSir Marc Isambard Brunel, he was appointed resident engineer when work on theThames Tunnelbegan, under his father’s direction, in 1825. He held the post until 1828, when a sudden inundation seriously injured him and brought the tunnel work to a stan...
Today “Victorian” connotes a prudish refusal to admit theexistence of sex, hypocritically combined with constant discussions of sex, thinly veiled as a series of warnings. There is some truth to both sides of thisstereotype. Some few educated Victorians did write a lot about sex, includingpor...
More access made British cultural products more important. Not only did they reveal much about the society from which they emerged, but during the Victorian period Britain was the cultural capital of the English-speaking world (including the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand). Vic...