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Industrial revolution
The industrial revolution from about 1760- 1840 had a great impact on the english economy and labour. Many things went from man craft to machines, a great efficiency. It began in England and within a few decades had spread to Western Europe and the United States.
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Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834)
He was an economist. He wrote an essay about the principle of population: "That the increase of population is necessarily limited by the means of subsistence, that population does invariably increase when the means of subsistence increase and that the superior power of population is repressed and the actual population kept equal to the means of subsistence by misery and vice." -
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Poverty
19th century Britain saw a huge population increase accompanied by rapid urbanisation stimulated by the Industrial Revolution. The large numbers of skilled and unskilled people looking for work kept wages down to a barely subsistence level. Large houses were turned into flats and tenements, and as landlords failed to maintain these dwellings slum housing developed. -
William Thackeray
William Thackeray's (1811-1863) most famous work "Vanity Fair" appeared in 1848. It's tale about the anti-heroine Becky Sharp. The novel was from its birth said to be a literary treasure . -
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens (1812-1870) is the most popular Victorian novelist. His novels are about social issues like the cruel life of poor children in workhouses or orphanages and the conseqeunces of delays in the justice system - he reveals the evils of the industrialisation.
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The Corn Laws
The Corn Laws were trade laws designed to protect cereal producers in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland against competition from less expensive foreign imports -
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Britain's imperial century
The british empire was at its height - it was the largest empire in history and for over a century it was the foremost global power. By 1922 the British Empire held sway over about 458 million people, one-fifth of the world's population at the time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Empire -
Emily Brontë
Emily Brontë (1818-1848) wrote "Wutherings hights" in 1847. This is her first and only novel. It is considered controversial because of the mental and physical cruelty. -
Victoria was born
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The Victorian Era
The Victorian Era was the period of Queen Victoria's reign from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901.
Victoria was described as insightful figurehead who although remained reserved she used her power and influence to get what she wanted. A strong women she over saw a vast empire and ruled over ¼ of all the land in the world. http://www.getaukjob.com/victorian-age.php -
The first of the three reform acts
This reform gave the middle class the political power it needed to consolidate the economic. The reform reapportioned representation in Parliament fairer to the cities of the industrial north, which had experienced tremendous growth. This act gave also gave the power of voting to those lower in the social and economic scale. Now any man owning a household worth £10 was able to vote. Approximately one man in five now had the right to vote in Great Britain. -
Slavery banned in british colonies
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Oliver Twist
"Oliver Twist" (1837-1838) is a novel by Charles Dickens. The novel lights up the horrible treatment of paupers and orphans. "Oliver Twist" is not only a spectacular novel but also an important document in social history and the novel has been made into a film in 1948 and again in 2005. -
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English realism
Realism is a literary movement that started in France in the 1850s as a reaction against Romanticism and which tried to show "life as it was" in literature all over Europe. Although the concept is also questioned by some critics, it is a useful term to understand the general spirit of the second half of the 19th century: a reaction to Romanticism, a stress on reason and positivism, and a faith in the power of the artist to show reality. http://literatureinenglishunican.blogspot.dk/2009/12/eng -
Victoria became queen
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Child labour
The Industrial Revolution led to a population increase, but the chances of surviving childhood did not improve throughout the Industrial Revolution In England and Scotland in 1788, two-thirds of the workers in 143 water-powered cotton mills were described as children.
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Queen Victoria marries Albert Of Saxe-Coburg
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The Great (potato) Irish famine 1845- 1852
In Ireland, the Great Famine was a period of mass starvation, disease and emigration between 1845 and 1852. It is sometimes referred to, mostly outside Ireland, as the Irish Potato Famine because one-third of the population was then solely reliant on this cheap crop for a number of historical reasons. -
The Great Exhibition
The Great Exhibition also referred as the Crystal Palace Exhibition was an international exhibition that took place in Hyde Park in London from 1 May to 11 October 1851. It was a celebration of modern industrial technology and design. It was the first of World's Fair exhibitions of culture and industry. -
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) wrote "The picture of Dorian Grey" and "The Importance of Being Earnest". He did a lot of theater and most of his works were a critique of the society in a comedian way. -
Childrens education
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Albert Of Saxe-Coburg dies
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Queen Victoria attends for the first time the State Opening of Parliament after Albert's death
5 years after the loss of her husband the queen was ready to attend at the parliament again. The following year she supported the passing of the Reform Act 1867. -
The second of the three reform acts
The Reform Act extended the right to vote even further down the class ladder - many workingmen were now able to vote. The reform added almost a million voters. Women were still not allowed to vote - the queen was not in favour of votes for women. -
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The Great Depression
A selfmade economic crisis called The Great Depression was a fatale development for the working people. It was more like a new state of mind of uneasiness of the economic prospects of Britain. -
The third of the three reforms
The reform gave most agricultural laborers the right to vote but women were still not allowed to vote. -
Queen Victoria dies
