Victorian-Era | 5-Minute History

The Changing Face of the Second Empire

In the 1860s and 70s, there was an architectural style that took the world by storm. It was called "Second Empire", …

Before it became popular to lift heavy objects for an hour or run down the street for fun (known to Victorians as …

Louise Rayner was a British watercolour artist of the Victorian Era. During the summers of the 1870s and 1880s, she …

Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (1804 - 1881), was twice the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during …

Look at those eyes. Even at seven years old, Princess Wilhelmina of the Netherlands seemed to know she was destined for …

At one time, especially between 1815 and 1915, the horse and buggy was the primary mode of short-distance transportation …

Before there was the motorcar, Victorians traveled to see castles by train and horse-drawn carriage. There was no …

Drawing of Ikey Solomon, original criminal on whom Fagin is based. The character Fagin in Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist …

It was 10 am, 19th July 1843. Prince Albert stepped from the royal train which had arrived in Bristol from London as the …

Lithograph of Krakatoa eruption. It was 10:02 in the morning, August 27th, 1883. The loudest explosion ever recorded and …

Victorian ladies fashion is often characterized as ornate and covering the whole body. For men, it was formal and rigid. …

Within a single generation, the Victorians built a vast railway network connecting nearly every town in Scotland. …