THE VICTORIAN AGE …from 1832… …to 1901 Queen Victoria came to the throne in …… but according to British historians The Victorian Age was… 1837 …from 1832… …to 1901 when… when… …the First Reform Act was passed… …Queen Victoria died. 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

There was also… The main political parties were the LIBERALS the CONSERVATIVES They managed to have the CORN LAWS repealed There was also… CHARTISM An important …………. class movement… working …which called for social reforms and the extension of the …………… right to vote

It was a complex and ……………… period. contradictory Reforms Imperial expansion A symbol Development of industry and trade Material progress gas water lighting paved roads New services for the towns places of entertainment The Great Exhibition hospitals museums police stations 1851 prisons BUT…

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 RESPECTABILITY good manners having a nice house with servants and a carriage RESPECTABILITY going to church regularly charitable activity A mixture of morality, conformity and ……..…… hypocrisy

VICTORIAN VALUES PHILANTHROPY CHARITY addressed to… drunken men stray children fallen women

VICTORIAN VALUES FAMILY was… …patriarchal. The husband was… …the authority. The wife looked after…. … the house … children

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. Central America Britian had colonies in Asia Africa Oceania 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 Oceania huge empire Asia Central America Africa India The jewel in the crown ‘The sun never sets on the British Empire’ ‘the white man’s burden’ Colonisation was regarded as a ……….. mission