Victorian Sports

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Victorian Sports

• So the modern games of football and rugby were
  born (although rugby would divide again into
  league and union games) and these sports were
  portrayed as healthy rather than destructive. Of
  course legend has it that rugby was invented in a
  moment of inspiration by one of the pupils at
  Rugby. A plaque on the school grounds reads
• This stone commemorates the exploit of William
  Webb Ellis who with a fine disregard for the
  rules of football, as played in his time, first
  took the ball in his arms and ran with it, thus
  originating the distinctive features of the rugby
  game. AD 1823 Sadly the evidence to support the
  myth is harder to find - still it's a nice story.

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Queen Victoria's Lifetime

• Queen Victoria
• Queen Victoria was the longest reigning British
  monarch and the figurehead of a vast empire. She
  oversaw vast changes in British society and gave
  her name to an age
• Victoria was born in London on 24 May 1819, the
  only child of Edward, Duke of Kent, and Victoria
  Maria Louisa of Saxe-Coburg. She succeeded her
  uncle, William IV, in 1837, at the age of 18, and
  her reign dominated the rest of the century. In
  1840 she married her first cousin, Prince Albert
  of Saxe-Coburg Gotha. For the next 20 years they
  lived in close harmony and had a family of nine
  children, many of whom eventually married into
  the European monarchy.