Victorian and Edwardian Britain

1837–1914 CE

Victorian and Edwardian Britain covers the period from Queen Victoria’s accession in 1837 to the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. It includes industrial growth, urban poverty, empire, policing, railways, reform, class tension, women’s suffrage and the social unease of the Edwardian years.

This category works better as a public gateway than splitting Victorian and Edwardian material at the top level. Readers often move between late Victorian crime, imperial adventure, social fiction and Edwardian pre-war settings without needing those as separate root categories.

The period supports historical mysteries, literary fiction, imperial and naval adventure, family sagas and novels of social change. It connects writers and series concerned with London, empire, class, gender, medicine, technology, suffrage, reform and the approach of modern war.

Related people for Victorian and Edwardian Britain

Adolf Hitler1889–1945 Arthur Maurice Hocart1883–1939 Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington1769–1852 Barghash bin Said of Zanzibarc. 1837–1888 Belle Elmorec. 1873–1910 Benjamin Disraeli1804–1881 Cetshwayo kaMpande Charles Cornwallis Charles George Gordon1833–1885 Charles II of England1630–1685 Charles I of England1600–1649 Dost Mohammad Khan1793–1863 Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig1861–1928 Elizabeth I1533–1603 Ethel Le Neve1883–1967 Evelyn Wood FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan1788–1855 Francis Drake1540–1596 Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts1832–1914 Frederic Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford George III1738–1820 George VI1895–1952 H. H. Asquith1852–1928 Haile Selassie1892–1975 Hawley Harvey Crippen1862–1910 Henry Montgomery Lawrence1806–1857 Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston1784–1865 Henry VIII1491–1547 Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener1850–1916 Horatio Nelson1758–1805 James Brooke1803–1868 James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie1812–1860 James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan1797–1868 James VI and I1566–1625 John Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence1811–1879 Jomo Kenyatta1893–1978 Joseph Chamberlain1836–1914 Mahatma Gandhi1869–1948 Majid bin Said of Zanzibar1834–1870 Manfred von Richthofen1892–1918 Menelik II1844–1913 Mohammad Akbar Khan1816–1845 Mohammad Ayub Khan Muhammad Ahmad1844–1885 Napoleon1769–1821 Napoleon III1808–1873 Oliver Cromwell1599–1658 Otto von Bismarck1815–1898 Paul Kruger1825–1904 Ranavalona I1788–1861 Rani Lakshmibai1828–1858 Ranjit Singh1780–1839 Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley1760–1842 Robert Baden-Powell1857–1941 Robert Clive1725–1774 Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala1810–1890 Shah Shujah Durrani1780–1842 Siegfried Sassoon1886–1967 Taytu Betul1851–1918 Tewodros II1818–1868 Thomas Wolsey1473–1530 Tipu Sultan1751–1799 Victoria1819–1901 Vladimir Lenin1870–1924 Walter Dew1863–1947 Walter Raleigh1552–1618 Wilfred Owen1893–1918 Wilhelm II1859–1941 William Brydon1811–1873 William George Keith Elphinstone1782–1842 William Halse Rivers Rivers1864–1922 William Pitt the Younger1759–1806 Winston Churchill1874–1965 Woodrow Wilson1856–1924

Series

Series about Victorian and Edwardian Britain (1 series)

Soldier of the Queen in Order

by Griff Hosker 6 books 4.5

Soldier of the Queen follows the Roberts family through the late Victorian and Edwardian imperial army. The books move from Rorke’s Drift and Egypt to Sudan, oil interests, desert garrisons and pre-war diplomacy, showing imperial soldiering as a mixture of danger, ambition, family strain and long overseas service.