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The Dark History of Victorians

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From the morbid obsession with death and the strict mourning rituals to the terrifying criminal underworld of 19th-century Britain, explore the reality of Victorian life that the history books glossed over. Find out how behind the imposing promenades of London lurked disease, deprivation and despair for the city’s poorest denizens, and read of the atrocities of the British Empire.

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