1. victorian period and industrial revolution

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Early Victorian Period

(183048): opening of

Britains first railway

time of economic distress.

Victoria becomes Queen in

1837 (dies-1891).

The Reform Bill of 1832

voting privileges to men of thelower middle classes

redistributing parliamentary

representation more fairly.


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2 Servants would drink beer below stairs rather than water as it was

safer and gave them energy. They usually had eight pints a day, but itwas not strong beer.

4 When Victoria was a young princess, her mother, the Duchess of

Kent, was so paranoid that something would happen to her daughter

that she either slept in the same bedroom or in the same bed on theirvisits.

5 Queen Victoria must have had a strong stomach for all this fine

dining. Her personal doctor didn't examine her physically in the 20

years she employed him.

1 Queen Victoria's favourite drink

was a mixture of claret and single

malt whisky.


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The Imperial Mission is to protect the poor natives

and advance civilization (Queen Victoria) The White mans burden (Rudyard Kipling)


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Context

This was a period of important development of a

modern urban economy.

Demographic Transition.

Manufacturing (cotton)

Steam Power allowed the development of Railways,

Iron ships, Looms, Printing Presses.


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The industrial revolution brought several

transformations in the way goods and services were

produced in the British economy between 1760 and

1830.

The English population increased from 6.1 million to

13.1 million between 1760 and 1830.

Emergence of a

new social class:workers


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Industrialism: Progress or Decline?

Dramatic change thatbrought England to its

highest point of

development as a world

power.

Enormous increase in

wealth, but rapid and

unregulatedindustrialization brought

a host of social and

economic problems.

Cotton workers at Dean Mills nearManchester in 1851.


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Coster Girl The economic and socialdifficulties associated with

industrialization made the1830s and 1840s a Time of

Troubles,

unemployment, desperate

poverty, and rioting.


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Districts in London


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Districts in London


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Industrialism: Progress or Decline?

The condition of England

became a central topic for

novelists

Charles Kingsley, ElizabethGaskell,

Elizabeth Barret Browning

Charles Dickens

in the 1840s and early

1850s.

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E l P i d (1830 1848) A i f


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Early Period (1830 - 1848) A time of

trouble

The Cry of the Children Elizabeth Barret

Browning


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