Jewellery’s evolution in the 1800s highlights many of the economic and moral changes that transformed British society during the Queen’s 63-year reign. Jewellery is a private, yet paradoxically the most visible, sign of these social shifts. The growth of personal autonomy meant it was worn on the body, exchanged in love and carried into mourning — yet its evolution was based on the large-scale trends of imperial expansion and technological advance. From Tudor exclusivity to Victorian ubiquity By the nineteenth
Read more