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S03E02: Victoria and Her Sisters (1830 - 1910)Queen Victoria came to the throne at the tender age of eighteen, to rule over a country in the throes of a painful but supercharged industrial transformation. Chaos and revolution had been predicted by both socialists and traditionalists but in fact family life provided a bedrock of stability.
This is how Britain's women, from the Queen to Chartist charladies and West Indian nurses managed the intense change and attempted to galvanize social reform for their Victorian sisters.
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Air Date:
Jun 04, 2002
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60 minutes
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Simon Schama, Michael Kitchen, Lindsay Duncan
