2. "We are of the time of chivalry....We are of the age of steam." - William Makepeace Thackery
3. An “Age of Transition” The Quest for Self-Definition
4. Never since the beginning of Time was there, that we hear or read of, so intensely self-conscious a Society. Our whole relations to the Universe and to our fellow-man have become an Inquiry, a Doubt. — Thomas Carlyle, 1831
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12. We Are Not Amused… Victoria and the Victorians
13. "Few of us, perhaps, have realized till now how large a part she had in the life of everyone of us; how the thread of her life [bound] the warp of the nation's progress." - A newspaper quote on the Death of the Queen in 1901