
Queen Victoria’s spy network
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Victoria Hates It
For 50 years through her reign, victorias fighting this political battle over issues of asylum and human rights. She wants revolutionaries in britain to be put under close surveillance. Every ten years, a new piece of legislation is introduced into parliament to try and throw these people out. Even in her last decade, in 18 94, she's bringing in something called the aliens act. But once again, every ten years, it's defeated. The british parliament will not roll back on their liberal, inclusive adgende welcoming these revolutionaries from europe. Victoria hates it. Still to come on the history extora potecast, they never got any response. At one point they said
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