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Victorian education and school | HistoryExtra Academy video lecture . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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An illustration of Rugby school from the magazine 'The Illustrated London News', 1862. (De Agostini Picture Library/Getty Images)

Schools of hard knocks: Georgian and Victorian public schools . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Shaftesbury Welcome Ragged School in Battersea , 1899. Classes of 40 were not rare, and they could stretch to 80 during staff shortages. (Photo by Mary Evans)

Class warfare: a day in the life of a Victorian schoolchild . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The golden age of the country house . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Video podcast Medieval make do and mend . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Visitors promenade alongside a lake with Surrey Zoological Gardens in the background, 1844 (Photo by Guildhall Library & Art Gallery/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Victorian zoos Animal attraction in the 19th century . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Manchester dog show, c1909

The surprising history of Victorian dog shows . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Victorian cricket. (Photo by Getty Images)

Cricket, cocaine and cocoa houses: 5 ways Victorians spent their free time . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

London crowds celebrating the signing of the armistice at the end of the First World War.

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Armistice Day: what does it commemorate? Why are poppies worn? Plus 4 more things you need to know

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Week one quiz: Victorian life . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Charlotta Bass, the first black woman to be nominated to the US Vice Presidency

Charlotta Bass: the first woman of colour to run for US vice president

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Victorian life | HistoryExtra Academy video lecture . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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5 things you (probably) didn't know about Victorian Britain. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Gustave Doré's famous engraving, produced to illustrate the 1872 book 'London: A Pilgrimage', depicts (and exaggerates) the squalor of tightly packed terraced houses. Yes, as Rosalind Crone observes, the washing lines in Doré's picture demonstrate that

Was Victorian life really so grim? 5 reasons why the Victorians were ‘happy’ . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Workhouses were meant to be unpleasant. Inmates worked hard (like these women hanging out laundry c1880). (Photo by Sean Sexton/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Victorian daily life: what was it like for ‘ordinary’ Victorians?