Victorian age
Nineteenth-century British period
The Victorian age is the period of British history during Queen Victoria's reign, from 1837 to 1901.
It's associated with industrialization, imperial expansion, strict moral codes, and elaborate social conventions.
The term often carries connotations of prudishness, repression, or ornate style: Victorian attitudes toward sex, Victorian architecture.
Sometimes Victorian age; often just Victorian as an adjective.
- Great Exhibition1851 London industrial showcase
- child laborMinors performing paid work
- Gothic RevivalArchitectural return to medieval forms
- RealismMovement depicting ordinary life
- British RajImperial rule over India
empire building · Scramble for Africa · Industrial Revolution · Crimean War · Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood · Opium Wars · mourning dress · Romanticism · Aestheticism · stiff upper lip · parlor maid · Boer Wars · Treaty of Nanking · gas lamp · hansom cab · Charles Dickens · Crystal Palace · workhouse
- British ErasTudor era, Tudor period, Elizabethan era, Georgian era, Edwardian era
- Historical periodsRenaissance, Enlightenment, medieval period, Tudor period, Elizabethan
- Queen VictoriaPrince Albert, Balmoral Castle, Windsor Castle, Buckingham Palace, mourning
Victorian agemodern era
Current historical period
twenty-first century · Digital Age · prehistory · Medieval period · Roaring Twenties
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