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    The document provides an overview of key aspects of Victorian England between 1851-1860 including major events, social classes, religion, science, politics, and reforms. It highlights developments like the Great Exhibition of 1851, publication of Darwin's Origin of Species, expansion of the railway system including the London Underground, and political reforms extending suffrage. Religious beliefs and social hierarchies dominated society amid contradictions between morality and reality for the middle and lower classes.

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    The document provides an overview of key aspects of Victorian England between 1851-1860 including major events, social classes, religion, science, politics, and reforms. It highlights developments like the Great Exhibition of 1851, publication of Darwin's Origin of Species, expansion of the railway system including the London Underground, and political reforms extending suffrage. Religious beliefs and social hierarchies dominated society amid contradictions between morality and reality for the middle and lower classes.

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    Evangelicalism

    London museums

    LYELL
    commitment
    Earth datation
    doubt
    Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde
    STEVENSON pruderie
    DARWIN 1851 - Great Exhibition
    Evolutionism
    VICTORIAN RELIGION
    hypocrisy respectability
    COMPROMISE

    Calvinist
    SCIENCE & RAILWAY
    1860 - London underground
    work ethic PROGRESS

    MIDDLE CLASSES
    upper - mid - lower
    social mobility BRITISH India
    vice EMPIRE Hong Kong
    contradictions
    dissolution
    complexity GAP Victorian Age
    poverty
    compromise
    turmoil

    LOWER CLASSES SOCIETY


    Relative stability since
    POLITICS 1689 (Bill of Rights)
    REFORMS

    workhouses: food & 1833 - Factory Act


    lodging in exchange for 1834 - Poor Law Amendment
    1832 - Great (1st) Reform Act
    work appaling conditions 1847 - Ten hours Act 1838 - Chartist Movement (failed)
    1867 - 2nd Reform Act
    1884 - 3rd Reform Act

    Oliver Twist
    DICKENS
    extension of
    suffrage

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