Category: Victoria

Wealthy parents sent their children to fee-paying schools or employed governess, but gender still affected those of high class: boys’ schooling was considered more important, and they were taught academic and functional skills while girls were taught sewing, needlework, drawing, and music. How were Victorians educated? At the start of the Victorian era, very few […]

Fifty-seven of every 100 children in working class families were dead by five years of age.” Death was a common domestic fact of life for Victorians, she said, so they developed elaborate rituals to deal with it. The deathbed became a focal point for families who were in the process of losing a loved one, […]

Today, jewelry experts estimate the crown is worth a stunning $3.4 to $5.7 billion. What Queen Victoria coins are valuable? The Queen Victoria Sovereign coin is highly collectible, but other gold and silver Victorian coin types include the shilling, florin and crown. How much is a Queen Victoria 1887 coin worth? The scarcest of the […]

She is the longest-lived British princess of royal blood, and was the last surviving grandchild of Queen Victoria. Princess Alice was the chatelaine of Rideau Hall in Ottawa from 1940 until 1946, while her husband Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone, served as Governor General of Canada. Are any of Queen Victoria’s descendants still alive? […]

Huge Victoria Water Lily leaves are so large that small adults and children up to about 140 pounds can actually sit on them. Can a Victoria water lily hold a human? Victoria water lily’s leaf is not only famous for its size, but also the ability to support a heavy weight. Though the leaf itself […]

Ladies’ Victorian gloves were an essential part of life in the 1840s to 1900 Victorian era. Gloves evened the classes, covering up the rough hands of a working-class or showing off wealth with a fine silk pair for the upper classes. Both ladies and gentlemen would feel naked without a fine pair of gloves. Did […]

In Victorian times the use of gloves grew increasingly mandated before falling into the “classy choice option” that they would become in the Jazz age and beyond. Victorians loved their codes of conduct. Gloves in particular were expected to be used in specific ways, but always used. Did Victorian men wear gloves? Gloves & Social […]

From the mid-16th century until the late 19th or early 20th century, young boys in the Western world were unbreeched and wore gowns or dresses until an age that varied between two and eight. At what age did boys start wearing pants? Between the age of 4-6, they would have their hair shorn and graduate […]

Boys wore a shirt, trousers and ankle boots, or shorts with long socks, with a jacket with a waistcoat or a jumper underneath. What would a Victorian boy wear to school? The Victorian schoolboy (not those in public schools) would have worn jackets and stout trousers. On their feet they wore ankle boots, and those […]

Their shirt had large rounded, stiff collars and was often worn without a tie. Boys would wear a waistcoat or jumper under their jacket. Some boys wore a cap or even a bowler type hat, but these would not be worn indoors. What did a Victorian boy wear? Boys would commonly dress according to their […]