An English author, poet and artist, although more famous for his work as art critic and social critic. Ruskin's thinking on art and architecture became the thinking of the Victorian and Edwardian eras.

(1812-1889) Poet of the Victorian era, married to Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

(1785-1881) British Victorian essayist famous for Life of Schiller.

Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 - 22 January 1901) was from 20 June 1837 the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and from 1 May 1876 the first Empress of India of the British Raj until her death. Her...

Charles John Huffam Dickens, (7 February 1812 - 9 June 1870), was one of the most popular English novelists of the Victorian era as well as a vigorous social campaigner.

(1820-1880) English novelist during the Victorian era that wrote books such as Middlemarch and The Mill on the Floss

Flower sellers in Covent Garden.

This University of Virginia site provides a photograph of Carroll Lewis (Charles Dodgson).

Caged crinoline.

SS Carondolet.

BBC historian Jim Donnelly describes how a million people died of hunger in Ireland in the late 1840s, on the doorstep of the world's richest nation. Archived.

A highly interesting account of the rebellion that occurred in 1857 when Indian troops staged a violent outbreak against their British masters. The author examines the causes, events and results of the mutiny. Archived.

Learn about Victoria's approach to working with the prime ministers who served during her long reign.

A highly interesting account of the rebellion that occurred in 1857 when Indian troops staged a violent outbreak against their British masters. The author examines the causes, events and results of the mutiny.

An image of Ethel Leginska.

An image of Thomas Carlyle.

An image of Thomas Carlyle.

An image of Charles Francis Jenkins.