The Victorian period was a period of great social change ... on consumers in the British Empire, and on low-paid British workers. Factory conditions were poor and working-class factory workers ...

As the web site explains, "In human terms, the story of Queen Victoria and John Brown is a love story in the truest sense, and one that illuminates all the paradoxes of the Victorian Era.

The Victorians saw the world changing. New technologies changed how we made and bought goods and Victorian era paintings show our tastes changing too.