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Pbs Learning Media: England 1800's, Victoria Collection
This is a collection of eight video lessons about England in the 1800's and Queen Victoria from MASTERPIECE: Victoria. Teaching materials are included.
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Pbs Learning Media: Victoria, Season 3: The Great Exhibition
Explore the landmark event that came to symbolize the Victorian era, the 1851 Great Exhibition in London, in this media gallery from the 2019 series Victoria, Season 3, Masterpiece. Despite the surrounding controversy, the success of...
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Pbs Learning Media: Victoria, Season 3: Cholera and Contagion
Discover how the work of Dr. John Snow during the London cholera epidemic of 1853 led to the discovery of how the disease was transmitted, in this video [2:17] excerpt from the 2019 series Victoria, Season 3, Masterpiece. Challenging the...
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Pbs Learning Media: Victoria, Season 2: The Irish Famine
Explore the causes and consequences of the "Great Famine," a period of devastating hunger and disease in 1840s Ireland, in this video [1:55] excerpt from the 2018 series Victoria, Season 2, Masterpiece. As Queen Victoria learns about the...
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Pbs Learning Media: Victoria, Season 2: A Woman Mathematician
Explore how Ada Lovelace, a brilliant mathematician, was not only able to escape the narrow expectations for 19th-century women, but also helped advance computing, in this video [2:17] excerpt from the 2018 series Victoria, Season 2,...
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Pbs Learning Media: Victoria, Season 1: Victoria Becomes Queen
Meet young Victoria as she makes her first appearance as queen to address the advisors who make up her Privy Council, in this scene from the 2017 drama series Masterpiece: Victoria. Accompanying Teaching Tips and Essays explore the...
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Pbs Learning Media: Victoria, Season 2: Motherhood and Monarchy
Learn how Queen Victoria both defined and defied the role of women in Victorian England in this video [1:32] excerpt from the 2018 series Victoria, Season 2, Masterpiece. Although Victoria supported the 19th-century notion that women...
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Pbs Learning Media: Victoria, Season 1: Queen Victoria & the English Jury System
Learn about trial by jury-an underlying principle of English and American law-in this scene from the 2017 drama series Masterpiece: Victoria. The queen, who has just survived an assassination attempt, refuses to bow to fear. She insists...