A Brief History of Life in Victorian BritainThe Victorian era has dominated the popular imagination like no other period but these myths and stories also give a very distorted view of the 19th century. The early Victorians were much stranger that we usually imagine and their world would have felt very different from our own and it was only during the long reign of the Queen that a modern society emerged in unexpected ways. Using character portraits events and key moments Paterson brings the

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