THE VICTORIAN AGE Queen Victoria came to the

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… …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The main political parties were the LIBERALS the CONSERVATIVES They managed to have the CORN LAWS repealed There was also… CHARTISM An important ………….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 hospitals prisons museums A symbol paved roads places of entertainment 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 disease cholera high death rate 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