1. 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

2. 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

3. 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They managed to have the CORN LAWS repealed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

4. 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…

5. 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

6. THE VICTORIAN COMPROMISE
VICTORIAN VALUES
They were mainly……
…MIDDLE-CLASS values

7. VICTORIAN VALUES
HARD WORK
DUTY

8. 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

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

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

11. VICTORIAN VALUES WOMEN had to be… CHASTE CHASTITY
Single women with a child were emarginated
Sexuality was repressed
PRUDERY
No nudity in art

12. 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.

13. 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