Victoria

The fatalist view of the Light Brigade’s charge towards the Russian guns at Balaclava is being challenged. They had their reasons why.

The young Queen was shot at on May 19th, 1849.

Queen Victoria inherited the 'Buckingham House' from her uncle, William IV, in 1837. She was eighteen years old. Patricia Wright looks at the chequered origins and troubled early years of London's royal landmark.

A Rosemary O'Day on imagining you're Erasmus and ways of seeing 1450-1600.

Elisabeth Darby and Nicola Smith look at the impact of the death and funeral of Prince Albert, on both Queen Victoria and the nation.

Andrew Sinclair

Joseph Hone asks whether, had the Queen shown her Irish subjects greater signs of affection, could the Union have been preserved?

At first allowed by the British politicians “only just as much space as he could stand upon” Queen Victoria’s Consort, nevertheless, succeeded in setting the pattern for modern constitutional monarchy, as G.H.L. LeMay here shows.

One of the best-known commemorative monuments in London, the Albert Memorial took over fourteen years to plan and complete.