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We had a previous section of British history with male bookend names: Henry and Cromwell. And we started with a look at some of the important women of the time – the queens. Our penultimate section begins with a queen, the second longest reigning queen of all time (now that the current queen Elizabeth IIElizabeth II has overtaken VictoriaVictoria), whose name became that of an entire age, the Victorian Age. But let’s start with a man: not with Winston ChurchillChurchill, Winston, who’ll come later, but with Benjamin DisraeliDisraeli.