Victorian England: The Age of Progress (Very Short History Book 15)

The Victorian era in England is seen today as a time of progress, particularly in areas such as the development of technology and heavy industry. It saw the arrival of industrialisation and factories, and the dawn of a period of geographic exploration as a generation of explorers set off to discover the African interior and bring development to India.

At home, the Victorian period was also a time for a highly moralistic social movement, with a trend towards the suppression of emotion and feelings. Finally, it was a period for significant population growth within England, as advances in medicine and the treatment of illness saw a decline in the death rate, with birth rates slow to 'catch up' and drop to a level that would be more familiar to the modern reader.

And of course, the era was dominated by the Queen that leant her name to the period, and who ruled for most of the nineteenth century until her death in 1901.

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