victorian period real presentation

°Queen Victoria (1837-1901)
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Age of transition

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England became the wealthiest country thanks to industry

and trade.

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”The sun never sets on England”


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TOPICS TO DEVELOP…

•The Industrial Revolution
•Life in the Victorian Era
•Social Class
•Development in Science and Technology
•Health and Medicine
•Entertainment
•Religion and political system
•The Victorian Novel and Major Authors
•Women in Victorian Culture
•Literacy and Publication

The Industrial Revolution
Factories were founded and mass production become important
and prolifetable


•Cities could be connected through canals, railways
and steamships.


•Urbanazation, poverty and child
labour emmerged


Daily life in the Victorian Era
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Because of the industrialization, people

migrated to other areas where opportunites for
work where found

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People unskilled – skilled demanded work, so the wages were low.

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Life condition were too hard.

•Children had to work as CHIMMEYSWEEPERS,COAL MINERS during longs hours
under difficult conditions to help the family budget.

CHILD LABOUR


The housing shortage

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Workers wanted to live nearby their working places because it was time saving.

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As a result of these demands and overcrowded conditions, the housing became scarce and

expensive. Therefore, so many people prefered slum-housing.


HOMELESS CHILDREN

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There were children living with their families in these

deseperate situattions.

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What's more, there were others living on the streets of London.

Unfortunately, crime was the result of their behaviour in order to
get some profits by stealing citizens.



Society's attitude towards the poor

“ The rich man in his castle,
the poor man at this gate,
God made them, high and lowly
and order'd their estate”.


Prostitution
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Beginning in the late 1840s, major news

organizations, clergymen, and single
women became increasingly concerned
about
prostitution, which came to be known as “
The Great Social Evil”

The police estimated there

were 8.600 in London alone in
1857.


Jack the Ripper is the best-known name given to an unidentified serial killer who was active in the largely impoverished areas in
and around the Whitechapel district of London in 1888.




SOCIAL CLASS

•Working Class: men and women who
perfomed physical labour, paid daily and
weekly wages.

•Middle Class: men performed mental or
“clean” work, paid monthly or annually.

•Upper Class: did not work, income came from inherited landand
investments.



Developments in Science
Technology
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Photography

Telegraph, telephone, cars and aircraft

Sewage system, water pipes in

London

water supply, gas network for heating and lighting

This study of natural history was most powerfully
advanced by CHARLES DARWIN and his theory
of evolution first published in his book On the Origin
of species in 1859.

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HEALTH AND MEDICINE

Medicine progressed during the Victorian years…

Ether, chloroform, nitrous oxide were used as a way of
anesthesia. In this way, operations such as dentistry cases
became painless.