Roman Britain
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Zealand, Australia, Tonga and some parts of Antarctica.
Victorian Age
The Victorian era of the United Kingdom was the period of Queen Victoria's reign from
June 1837 until her death on the 22nd of January 1901. The reign was a long period of
prosperity for the British people, as profits gained from the overseas British Empire, as well
as from industrial improvements at home, allowed an educated middle class to develop.
Her middle class wiews were called ,,Victorian values". They were discipline in the family,
the sobriety and puritanism of the public life. Some scholars extend the beginning of the
period--as defined by a variety of sensibilities and political games that have come to be
associated with the Victorians--back five years to the passage of the Reform Act 1832.
Calls for reform had been mooted long before 1832, but perennially without success. The