Beginning in the 1830s and ending with the death of Queen Victoria in
1901, the Victorian Era saw the British Empire--the largest the world
had seen--dominate the world. British ingenuity in the fields of
technological development and the heavy industry of its Industrial
Revolution led to Britain being dubbed "the workshop of the world" while
its Royal Navy policed the world's oceans helping to create what has
become known as a "Pax Britannica." This book details the sweeping
social and economic changes that took place during this period but also
examines the events of the time and the lives of the eminent Victorians
who contributed so much to British success--men and women such as
Florence Nightingale, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Charles Dickens,
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and Charles Darwin. This is the story of the
greatest period in British history, a period that still resonates in
today's Britain.