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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.
Homeless boysca. 1880
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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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