Victorian Chess Pieces by Berkeley - Cardinal RedBoard Not Included The Victorian era was an age of contrasts, with abject poverty and depravity found side by side with social, political and scientific progress; the workhouse and child labour persisting alongside sensualistic painting and poetry, peace and the grandiose Victorian age of Britains imperialist expansion. Taking its name from Queen Victoria, it would also be the era of Britains longest ruling sovereign, stretching from 1837 until her