Transcript The Victorian Age

THE VICTORIAN AGE
Queen Victoria came to the throne in
……
1837 but according to British
historians The Victorian Age was…
…from 1832…
…to 1901
when…
when…
…the First Reform Act
…Queen Victoria died.
was passed…
It gave the right to vote…
…to a large part of the middle class
Queen Victoria was loved
especially by the middle
class
moral
behaviour
religious
views
She reigned
constitutionally
She avoided the
revolutions that spread in
Europe in 1848
The main political parties were
the LIBERALS
the CONSERVATIVES
They managed to have the
CORN LAWS repealed
There was also…
CHARTISM
An important ………….
working class movement…
…which called for social reforms and the
extension of the ……………
right to vote
It was a complex and ………………
contradictory period.
Reforms
Imperial
expansion
Material
progress
Development of
industry and
trade
water
gas
lighting
New services for
the towns
paved roads
places of
entertainment
hospitals
prisons
museums
A symbol
The Great Exhibition
police
stations
BUT…
1851
There was still a lot of poverty.
The misery of industrialisation
Poor people lived in
overcrowded ……...
slums
crime
pollution
terrible
working
conditions
high death
rate
disease
cholera
tuberculosis
THE VICTORIAN COMPROMISE
VICTORIAN VALUES
They were mainly……
…MIDDLE-CLASS values
VICTORIAN VALUES
HARD WORK
DUTY
VICTORIAN VALUES
good manners
RESPECTABILITY
having a nice house with
servants and a carriage
going to church regularly
A mixture of morality,
conformity and ……..……
hypocrisy
charitable activity
VICTORIAN VALUES
PHILANTHROPY
drunken men
CHARITY
addressed to…
fallen women
stray children
VICTORIAN VALUES
FAMILY was… …patriarchal.
The husband was…
The wife looked
after….
… the house
… children
…the authority.
VICTORIAN VALUES
WOMEN had to
be… CHASTE
CHASTITY
Single women with a child were
emarginated
Sexuality was repressed
PRUDERY
No nudity in art
VICTORIAN VALUES
PATRIOTISM
was an important value in Victorian Britain.
It was influenced by the idea of racial superiority.
The British Empire was huge.
Britian had colonies in Asia Africa
Central
Oceania
America
India was referred to as ‘the jewel in the crown’.
The concept of ‘the white man’s burden’ was exalted in
the works of writers, such as Rudyard Kipling.
Colonisation was regarded as a mission: an obligation
imposed by God on the British to spread their superior
way of life on the native populations around the world.
VICTORIAN VALUES
PATRIOTISM
idea of racial …………….
superiority
huge empire
Asia
India
The jewel
in the
crown
Africa
Oceania
Central
America
‘The sun never sets on the British Empire’
‘the white man’s burden’
Colonisation was regarded
as a ………..
mission