Only 18 when she became Queen of Britain, Victoria gave her name to an age and an empire. In this collection, learn who she was and what happened to people and countries during her lengthy reign.
Thackeray's drawings, in his 1848 edition of Vanity Fair, tell us something about the way he views his characters (and Victorian society).
Head of the greatest empire on earth, Victoria was a woman of major contradictions. She detested public life but loved being an Empress. Her offspring...
This image illustrated an article, published in 1863, addressing the deplorable conditions in the Bethnal Green section of London, England.
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