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Queen Victoria, Empire, and Excess Adrienne Auslander Munich State University of New York at Stony Brook It was a Victorian commonplace to observe that the Queen ruled her nation as a mother and her household as a monarch. Ruling is mixed up, the joke suggests; Victoria's idea of rule is backwards. Supposedly the Queen
Victorian era, the period between about 1820 and 1914, corresponding roughly to the period of Queen Victoria’s reign (1837–1901) and characterized by a class-based society, a growing number of people able to vote, a growing state and economy, and Britain’s status as the most powerful empire in the world.
Das britische Empire umspannte ein ganzes Fünftel der Erdoberfläche und war zur überragenden Supermacht seiner Zeit geworden. Victorias Versuche, die europäischen Monarchien zu stärken, indem sie ihre Familienmitglieder verheiratete, brachten zwar kurzfristigen Frieden, aber sie säten die Saat für einige der zerstörerischsten Konflikte des 20.
Victoria (1819–1901) was Queen of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837-1901. Known as the Victorian era, her reign of 63 years and seven months was longer than any previous British monarch. It was for the UK a period of rapid industrial, political, scientific, and military change, marked by a great expansion of the British Empire.
On William IV's death in 1837, she became Queen at the age of 18. Queen Victoria is associated with Britain's great age of industrial expansion, economic progress and, especially, empire. At her death, it was said, Britain had a worldwide empire on which the sun never set.
The story of Queen Victoria I, who reigned for 63 years and ruled over 400 million people in the British Empire. Find out more with Bitesize KS1 History.
Within a few short decades, this small island nation would be transformed into an industrial superpower, with an empire spanning the globe. Queen Victoria's Empire is both the story of this ...
