The period of time reigned over by Queen Victoria, saw a massive change in the way people in the United Kingdom lived. Land was enclosed and people were forced off the farms to find jobs in the expanding towns and cities.

Many people became rich from the profits brought about by the industrial revolution. However a greater number lived in squalor and poverty.

The Victorian age was the age of steam, the age of social reform, the age of the empire. Find out more by clicking on our Links button.