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    The Victorian Age lasted from 1837 to 1901 in Britain. It saw rapid industrialization, social conflicts between classes, and many social reforms. Victorian values centered around family, morality, and religion, though Darwin's theory of evolution challenged religious views. Women faced restrictive gender roles and double standards. The British Empire greatly expanded during this time through colonial expansion. Working conditions were poor, leading to acts improving factories, mines, and public health. Suffrage slowly expanded, with all men gaining the right to vote by 1884.

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    The Victorian Age lasted from 1837 to 1901 in Britain. It saw rapid industrialization, social conflicts between classes, and many social reforms. Victorian values centered around family, morality, and religion, though Darwin's theory of evolution challenged religious views. Women faced restrictive gender roles and double standards. The British Empire greatly expanded during this time through colonial expansion. Working conditions were poor, leading to acts improving factories, mines, and public health. Suffrage slowly expanded, with all men gaining the right to vote by 1884.

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    The Victorian Age Social Conflicts Reforms and Values

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    The Victorian Age

    1837-1901
    Main Features

    • The Industrial Revolution and Free Trade


    • Social Conflicts
    • Social Reforms
    • Victorian values: Family, Respectability, Morality
    • Religion and C.Darwin’s Theories
    • The Condition of Women : the DoubleStandard
    • Colonial expansion
    Social conflicts
    •Middle Class vs
    Aristocracy
    Repeal of Corn Laws
    1846
    •Working class vs
    Middle class:
    Low wages
    Urbanization
    Slums
    Back to back houses
    Slums & back to back houses

    It was a town of red brick…


    Victorian Laws

    • 1842 – 46 Mines Act


    • 1847 Ten Hour Bill
    • 1848 Public Health Act
    • 1867 2nd Reform Act (almost all men could
    vote)
    • 1870 Education Act
    • 1871 Trade Unions became legal
    • 1884 3rd Reform Act(suffrage for all men)
    • 1901 Labour Party
    Women
    •Essentialism: the idea
    that differences
    between men &
    women were
    determined by nature
    and women were
    ‘naturally ‘unsuited for
    male roles (as men
    were
    ‘naturally‘superior)
    The double standard
    •Idealization of
    women: angelic
    figures (mother and
    young girl) not only
    physically but also
    morally
    •This difference
    justified different
    codes of behaviour
    and education for
    men and for women
    The Angel in the House
    Women's clothing symbolised their
    constricted lives. Tight lacing into
    corsets and cumbersome multiple
    layers of skirts which dragged on
    the ground impeded women's
    freedom of movement. Between
    1856 and 1878, among the
    wealthy, the cage crinoline was
    popular as it replaced the many
    layers of petticoats, but it was
    cumbersome and humiliating.
    Sitting down, the cage rode up
    embarrassingly at the front. The
    skirts were so wide that many
    women died engulfed in flames
    after the material caught fire from
    an open grate or candle.
    1857
    Tha Matrimonial Causes Act
    • A husband could divorce his wife if she
    committed adultery
    But
    • The woman who wanted a divorce had to
    prove her husband guilty not only of
    adultery but also of incest, bigamy,
    bestiality cruelty or desertion
    Were unmarried women less
    unhappy?
    • Rich women became
    spinsters , easily made
    fun of with reference to
    their own condition
    • Poor women could only
    find humiliating
    employment e.g. in
    factories
    • For many women the only
    chance to survive lay in
    prostitution
    Foreign Policy
    • 1854 :The Crimean War
    • 1858 : India Act
    • 1875 – 1900 colonial development in
    Africa and the Far East
    • 1887 The First Imperial Conference in
    London
    • 1899- 1902 Anglo Boer War
    Victorian Colonial Policy
    • 1876 Queen Victoria
    was proclaimend
    Empress of India by
    Parliament
    Colonial Expansion
    To strive, to seek , to find and not
    to yield
    The White Man’s Burden…
    Evolution
    Sir Charles Lyell 1803
    • Principles of Geology(the Earth
    is much older than people
    think)
    Charles Darwin
    • 1859 the Origin of Species by
    means of Natural Selection
    (survival of the fittest)
    • 1871 The Descent of Man and
    selection in Relation to Sex
    The Funeral
    Queen
    Victoria’s
    Statue in
    Windsor

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