Christmas cards and crackers are also Victorian inventions which the royals evangelized. In 1843, Sir Henry Cole, the first director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, printed 100 festive cards fe ...

An introduction to some significant inventions from the Victorian era. Adam Hart-Davis explains how the discovery that a bitter tree bark could protect against malaria lead to the invention of ...

Victorian inventions, Queen Victoria, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Victorian children. The Trapper. audioThe Trapper The life of a young Victorian child working in a coal mine. Street children.