QUEEN VICTORIA

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Victoria (1819-1901) was queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1837–1901) and empress of India (1876–1901). She was the last of the House of Hanover and gave her name to an era, the Victorian Age.  She and her husband, Prince Consort Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, had nine children.

Her reign saw advances in industry, science (Darwin’s theory of evolution), communications (the telegraph, popular press), and other forms of technology; the building of the railways and the London Underground, sewers, and power distribution networks;  a greatly expanded empire; unequal growth of wealth, with class differences; tremendous poverty; increase in urban populations, with the growth of great cities like Manchester, Leeds, and Birmingham; increased literacy; and great civic works, often funded by industrial philanthropists.

Here is a video about Queen Victoria (first part)

https://youtu.be/wEOtVXydiEI

http://www.bassi.gov.it/documents/FCANTINOTTI/24.%20VICTORIAN%20CONTEXT.pps

http://www.iispandinipiazza.gov.it/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/The-Victorian-Age-1.pdf