S1E13:Victoria And Her Sisters

A History of Britain

4 Jun 20021 hTV-PG

She began the century that bears her name as a princess and ended it as an empress. Queen Victoria ruled one of the most powerful empires in world history during a century of staggering change, for both good and bad. But, as Simon Schama reveals, it was Victorian women who were at the forefront of the fight against its excesses and inequalities and campaigned for the rights of ordinary people.