Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
(See “National Portrait Gallery—First Floor” map,
here
.)
As the wealthiest nation on earth with a global colonial empire, Britain during Queen Vict-
oria's long reign embraced modern technology, contributing to the development of power
looms, railroads, telephones, motorcars, and electric lights. It was a golden age of science,
literature, and middle-class morality, though pockets of extreme poverty and vice lurked
in the heart of London itself.
