Image from Queen Victoria and her Prime Ministers Find out which of her ministers she loved 'like a father' and which drove her into a white rage. By Christopher Hibbert.

Image from Disraeli and Gladstone: Opposing Forces The stormy relationship between two extraordinary prime ministers who heartily loathed each other. By Robert Blake.

• Prime Ministers and Politics Timeline - 300 years of high ideals and low cunning
• Victoria as a Girl: The Patient Rebel by Professor Lynne Vallone

Image from British India and the 'Great Rebellion' How did the Great Rebellion - otherwise known as the Indian Mutiny - of 1857 shape modern India? By Professor Peter Marshall.

Image from The Irish Famine How rigid ideology may have helped condemn as many as a million people to death. By Jim Donnelly.

• Irish Home Rule: An imagined future - How was Home Rule envisaged by its opponents and supporters?
• Zulu: The True Story - Evidence of a cover-up, by Saul David
• Women's Rights Quiz - Test your knowledge of the rights of Victorian women
• The Chartist Movement 1838 - 1848 - Dangerous radicals or proto-democrats? By Stephen Roberts
• Reforming Acts by Alexandra Briscoe
• Beneath the Surface: A Country of Two Nations by Joanne de Pennington
• The Boer Wars by Professor Fransjohan Pretorious
• The Crimean War by Andrew Lambert

Image from Who Wants to Be a Cotton Millionaire? Cotton was one of the driving forces of the Industrial Revolution. Find out if you have what it takes to make it in this cut-throat Victorian trade.

Image from All Change in the Victorian Age By the end of the 19th century, daily life had altered beyond all recognition. How did the Victorians shape their world? By Bruce Robinson.

• The Workshop of the World - Britain's industrial dominance, by Pat Hudson

Image from Victorian Technology The technology developed in Victoria's reign brought a social and economic revolution whose effects are still being felt today. By Paul Atterbury.

Image from Brunel: 'The Practical Prophet' He is remembered as a great engineer, but his real genius may have been in the power of persuasion. By Ross Peters.

• The 'Great Eastern' - Brunel's blueprint for decades of ship design
• Stephenson's Rocket Animation - Inside the trailblazing steam engine
• The Blast Furnace Animation - Inside the device that shaped the industrial revolution
• The Spinning Mill Animation - Inside the machinery that revolutionised textiles
• Winding Gear Animation - Inside this mechanism of the industrial age
• The Beam Engine Animation - Inside the Victorian engine
• Paddle Steamship Animation - Inside the engine of a paddle steamer
• Iron Bridge Virtual Tour
• The Iron Bridge - How was it Built? by David de Haan
• Seven Wonders of the Industrial World by Deborah Cadbury
• Panama Canal Gallery by Panama Canal Authority
• The Airy Transit Circle by Emily Winterburn

Image from Women's Work The ability to earn contributed to Victorian women's independence, but at what cost? By Professor Pat Hudson.

Image from Tudors and Victorians: Dressing Up Can you sort out your stays from your stockings and your britches from your ruffs? Dress to impress with this costume game.

• The Rise of the Victorian Middle Class by Dr Donna Loftus
• Crime and the Victorians by Professor Clive Emsley
• Victorian Mugshots Gallery by Steve Jones
• London: 'A Modern Babylon' by Bruce Robinson
• Sex, Drugs and Music Hall by Matthew Sweet
• The Victorian Seaside by Professor John Walton
• Victorian Sport: Playing by the Rules by Alex Perry
• Beneath the Surface: Social Reports as Primary Sources by Joanne de Pennington
• On the Beat in Birmingham by David Cross

Image from Muck and Brass Make tough choices as you balance coffins and coins.

Image from Foul Facts Gallery: Vile Victorians An offbeat look at the darker side of Victorian life. By Simon Cooper and Terry Deary.

• The Rural Exodus - Migration to the towns, by Mike Winstanley
• Victorian Medicine - From Fluke to Theory by Bruce Robinson
• Florence Nightingale: the Lady with the Lamp by Mark Bostridge
• The Foundling Hospital by Rhian Harris