A History of Our Own Times From the Accession of Queen Victoria to the General Election of 1880, Volume III

LibriVox recording of A History of Our Own Times From the Accession of Queen Victoria to the General Election of 1880, Volume III by Justin McCarthy. Read in English by Pamela Nagami Volume III of this history of Victorian Britain begins in 1856 with the gunboat diplomacy of the Second Opium War and then moves to the harrowing days of the Indian (Sepoy) Rebellion of 1857. In June 1858, Benjamin Disraeli secures passage of the Jews Relief Act and Baron Lionel Nathan de Rothschild takes his seat in Parliament. Prince Albert dies after a short illness in December 1861, leaving a distraught and cl