Victorian (1837 – 1901)
Explore objects, stories and blogs illuminating an era defined by the 63-year monarchy of Queen Victoria.
Blogs-And-Stories
Three-dimensional portraits of Victorian Londoners
Stereoscopic photos from our collection are the clues to a popular optical illusion of the past
The Thames Set by James McNeill Whistler
As the polluted river crawled by, Whistler scratched out images of London’s watery margins
What was the temperance movement?
How this anti-alcohol campaign shaped Victorian London and its drinking habits
The Thames Tunnel: Marc Brunel’s engineering marvel
A world first right under the River Thames
What was Bloody Sunday 1887?
A demonstration of desperate working-class Londoners met with police brutality
How gas lamps illuminated London
A cheaper and brighter way out of the darkness
London’s abandoned & long-lost Tube stations
Disused, dismantled and disappeared underground
What was life like in Victorian London?
An era of massive change for the world’s largest city
Jacob’s Island: One of the worst slums in London
Immortalised by Charles Dickens in Oliver Twist
The match girls’ strike of 1888
The actions of women in an east London match factory ignited a labour movement
