This Sceptred Isle - Volume 10 - The Age Of Victoria 1837-1901
By Anna Massey, and Peter Jeffrey
Tracklist
- The Age Of Victoria
- 1837 - Lord Melbourne Informs Princess Victoria That She Is Queen
- The Ambition Of The Queen Mother
- Victoria's Coronation
- Melbourne Becomes The Queen's Advisor
- 1838 - The Chartists
- 1839 - Melbourne Resigns
- The First Afghan War
- The Opium Wars
- Prince Albert, The Queen's Cousin, Arrives in England
- 1840 - Victoria And Albert Are Married
- Prince Albert And The Precedence Question
- 1841 - Resignation Of The Whig Government - Peel Becomes P.M.
- Trade And The Repeal Of The Corn Laws
- Benjamin Disraeli And Young England
- 1846 - Famine In Ireland
- The Coercion Act - Peel Resigns
- Lord John Russell Becomes Prime Minister
- The Beginnings Of The Liberals
- The Last Whig Government
- The Growth Of Industrial Britain
- Public Health
- 1851 - The Great Exhibition
- Rebellions in Europe
- 1854 - The Crimean War Begins
- The Charge Of The Light Brigade
- The State Of The Troops - A Commission Of Enquiry
- Florence Nightingale
- The Fall Of Sebastopol And The End Of The War
- 1855 - The State Of The Nation
- Lord Palmerston, The New Prime Minister
- Disraeli Leads The Tories
- 1857 - The Indian Mutiny
- The British Take Revenge
- Gladstone On Income Tax
- 1856 - The Arrow War
- 1860 - More Parliamentary Reform In The Air
- Darwin And The Origin Of Species
- 1861 - Disunity In America, Unity In Italy
- 1861 - The Deaths Of The Queen Mother And Of Prince Albert
- Britain In 1861
- The Queen In Mourning
- Schleswig-Holstein And Bismark
- 1865 - Palmerston Dies - Disraeli Becomes Chancellor
- The Second Reform Act
- 1868 - Disraeli Becomes Leader Of The Conservatives
- Gladfstone And Disraeli
- 1869 - The Irish Church Bill
- The Golden Age Of The Liberals
- The Industrial Revolution Puts To Sea
- Charles Dickins
- Education
- Livingstone And Stanley
- 1870 - The Invisible Queen
- The Third French Republic
- 1874 - Disraeli Becomes Prime Minister
- 1875 - The British Government Buys Shares In The Suez Canal
- 1876 - The Turks Massacre Christian Bulgarians
- 1877 - Jingoism, Cyprus And 'Peace With Honour'
- 1877 - Empress Of India
- 1880 - Gladstone Becomes Prime Minister Again
- 1881 - The Death Of Disraeli
- 1881 - The First Boer War
- The Irish Land League, Home Rule And Charles Parnell
- 1885 - Gladstone's Home Rule Bill Fails
- Egypt And The Sudan
- 1884 - The Death Of Gordon At Khartoum
- 1885-6 - Four General Elections - The Way Is Open For The Labour Party
- 1887 - Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee
- Lord Randolph Churchill Resigns
- The Fabian Society
- 1892 - Keir Hardie Elected M.P.
- 1894 - Gladstone Resigns
- 1898 - The Battle Of Omdurman
- 1899 - The Second Boer War
- Mafeking And Ladysmith
- 1900 - The Khaki Election
- 1901 - The Death Of Queen Victoria
- The Dawn Of The 20th Century