Victorian / Edwardian

 VICTORIAN ERA

The history of United Kingdom under the reign of QueenVictoria Hanover. The Queen was in power in the years 1837-1901. It was one of the longest uninterrupted reign of one monarch periods in modern history.

There was stability in the country and growing prosperity, and the United Kingdom became the largest world power. George Stephenson's locomotive and the steam engine by James Watt is a symbol of contemporary Britain. There was the famous strict morality, proclaiming the need to hide or even suffocate the feelings, which protested against such Charles Dickens. Victorians force many social conventions to which they had to adapt. The ideal woman is a model Victorian "angel in the house" - a woman both beautiful and resourceful, hard-working, responsible, being the guardian of home heat and morality. There was a fallen woman model  devoid of a sense of morality. This is a woman who has lost in the scandal of the flesh (in the era of highly developed Victorian prostitution).

 EDWARDIAN

After the death of Queen Victoria in 1901 , Edward been the leader of a fashionable elite  that set a style influenced by the art and fashions of Continetal Europe.

The Edwardian period is sometimes extended beyond Edward's death in 1910 to include the years up to the sinking of the RMS Titanic in 1912, the start of World War I in 1914, the end of hostilities with Germany in 1918, or the signing of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919.