The story of Victorian Britain is one of invention, inequality, empire, and revolution. This video reveals how the Industrial Revolution and global empire turned a small island nation into the most powerful force on Earth—while also creating deep social divisions, sweeping reforms, and groundbreaking ideas that still shape our world today. From Queen Victoria’s unexpected rise to the brutal realities of factory life, and from the fight for women’s rights to the legacy of imperial conquest, this is the untold story of how the 19th century gave birth to the modern age.
Discover the people, movements, and moments that transformed how we live, work, dress, learn—and who gets a voice in society.
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:49 The Victorian World Begins
06:29 A Nation of Classes
11:54 Home, Marriage, and Morality
16:09 Women in the Victorian Age
21:23 Daily Life in Victorian Britain
26:41 The Servant Class
31:56 Factories and Industry
38:09 The Chartist Movement and Social Reform
44:21 The Great Irish Famine
50:01 Public Health, Disease and Medicine
55:56 Education and Literacy
01:02:00 Faith, Superstition, and Science
01:06:26 Victorian tastes, trends, and table manners
01:12:12 Leisure and Entertainment
01:17:32 The Crimean War
01:23:03 The Indian Rebellion and the Empire
01:28:55 The Zulu and Boer Wars
01:34:52 The Age of Invention
01:40:39 The End of an Era
01:46:16 Outro
Queen Victoria donated £2000 to Irish relief. £2,000 in 1847 is equivalent in purchasing power to about £265,151.66 ($355,997.41 USD) today, an increase of £263,151.66 over 178 years. The pound had an average inflation rate of 2.78% per year between 1847 and today, producing a cumulative price increase of 13,157.58% The problem with the British Diplomats that turned down the Sultan's offering was PROTOCOL. No one could give more than the Sovereign. It was a protocol breach, in a era where protocol was EVERYTHING.
Queen Charlotte (of Mecklinburg-Strelitz) King George III's wife introduced the Christmas tree to Britain. Prince Albert POPULARIZED them, in the charm offensive of depicting the Royal family as the ideal traditional family.
Thanks for interesting video. Visual and contents, and naration are good. . I would appreciate more from this era – railways, agriculture, science, colonies, industrial revolution, crime fighting, medicine, army, etc.
Dreadful era for women!
The rich then like know only care about themselves
I wish England would have had a revolution, it would have taught the rich a good lesson
A American hosts this?
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Well Victoria never did much she never headed anything she shut herself away for most of her reign,! In morning for Albert , he was the one that improve this era not Victoria she was very self indulgent and narrow minded .