Watch this 19th Century World History and The Victorian Era video entitled The Age of Optimism to study the social, technological, and economic changes that impacted England during the reign of Queen Victoria, whose lengthy rule (1837-1901) witnessed Britain's transformation from a land of agricultural villages into a leading industrial nation revolutionized by factories, railways, steamships, and the emergence of the middle class.
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