The Victorians (1837-1901) (DVD or VHS)
© 1992 Films Media Group, 26 minutes
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As the age approaches our own, time accelerates; and in the six-and-a-half
decades of Victoria’s reign, changes came thick and fast: England’s
population doubled, the economy exploded, railways shrank the country’s size,
iron and steel were everywhere—in clothing too, in the women’s steel hoops
and cages and bustles. This was an age that began in moderation and soon became
a contest for conspicuous consumption; an age of contradictions, too, when
children began to be dressed as children while women were strapped into tight
corsets; an age that ended looking not all that different from our own.
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