1800 – 1900: Napoleon and the Victorians

Embroidered picture: a crown and a globe

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8 stories from this era

  1. 1789–1815Fighting Napoleon: Trafalgar and Waterloo
  2. 1801The Union Flag: three crosses in one
  3. 1832–1867Winning the vote: from a few wealthy men to more people
  4. 1837–1901The Victorian age: the Empire at its height
  5. 1840s–1850sWorkshop of the world: free trade, the Crystal Palace and Brunel
  6. 1845–late 19th centuryThe Irish famine and Home Rule
  7. 1853–1856The Crimean War and Florence Nightingale
  8. 1899–1907The future of the Empire: the Boer War and Kipling

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