Metropolitan Avenue And The Victorian Era

The world today consists of children roaming the streets, technology taking over the world, and being able to work wherever you'd like but, could you imagine a life without all these things? Believe it or not there was a time in life where these things were very uncommon to see. This would be known as the victorian era. This time period was between 1837 and 1901. Daily life was very different from now. Health, social classes, and fashion are just three examples of how daily life was different in the victorian era.

The Victorian Era was a time of peace and prosperity. During the Victorian Era the society was divided into various social classes like the working class, middle class. Upper class, Dickens/Victorians. Above all those classes the middle class was the most hard working class with all the various occupations but also they also had quite relaxing life also speaking of which let's get into the middle class.

The Victorian Era or the romantic period was a time in which Queen Victoria ruled the throne. The Victorian period formally began in 1837 the year in which Victoria became the Queen of England and ended in 1901 the year in which she was laid to rest. In this paper, I will discuss Queen Victoria’s life or what we all know to be “The Victorian Era.” I will highlight some of the most powerful events that occurred during this time, the many reforms that were passed during Queen Victoria’s ruling, I will discuss the political, cultural, and social developments of this time period. I will speak about some inventions of the Victorian Era, and the two main political parties better known as the Tory and Whigs that were popular during this age. You will discover what imperialism is, the commonwealth, The British Monarch and why and how Victoria was such a remarkable monarch. I will even tell you some of the most interesting facts that I have learned to be true about Queen Victoria.

After William IV died, his niece, Victoria, became the Queen of England, starting the victorian era. In Victoria’s reign, the British Empire came to cover over ¼ of the world. The Industrial revolution is created during her reign, producing more products available to the common people of England. On the down side, people working in the mill had a hard life.

The diagram is a depiction of loading a skipper, a small boat designed to deposit and withdraw cargo from a large ship able to traverse large sea, whilst navy officers, distinguished by their blue coats, are recording the results. I picked this diagram to use and relate to commerce, because the strength in London trading lied in several aspects that are represented in the presentation. This has clear implications and can be used to give analysis on commerce in Victorian London. In order to demonstrate this, I would like to focus on three specific objects, and how each of them relate to commerce, within the diagram: the containers that are being loaded, the sigil in the middle of the picture, and the officers in the picture.

In the 19 century Manchester England did some really good and bad things, some of the good things included Railroads, trains, Canals, city plumbing and work, the bad things included overpopulation, robbery,and schooling.

Victorian-era Londoners were very rich or very poor - there was no “in-between”. These class distinctions are shown in many ways throughout the book, this includes: ‘ Hell’ ( east side ) vs. ‘Heaven’ ( West Side ), Jekyll Vs. Hyde, and Jekyll’s home.

The Victorian Era was a great time of prosperity for England, but not for everyone. During this time period in England, the lower classed suffered. The Industrial Revolution had many positive effect for society in general, but caused the lower class to suffer. Men’s wages declined, as a result women and children had to work to help support their families.

Victorian London was a charnel house of the dead; a city oozing horror and nowhere more so than a small chapel where they danced on the dead.

What is one of the most important eras of modern civilization? A few different ones may come to mind, but the Victorian era was culturally vital for the modern era. One of its great achievements was an author named Oscar Wilde. One of his greatest works was The Importance of being Earnest, which is still considered one of the greatest works of our time. Queen Victoria also made a huge impact even getting an era named after her. She is the second longest reigning queen, and under her reign, Great Britain prospered.

The Victorian Period was a great influence to the authors who composed novels at that time where distinctions between social classes as well as between men and women were strongly marked. During this period, it was precisely a woman who ruled. Alexandrina Victoria who was born on May 24, 1819 became Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from June 20, 1837 until her death on January 22, 1901. Victoria’s reign was one of the longest of a female in history. At only the age of 18, after her uncle William Henry IV died, she began a span of 63 years of reign. In spite of her independence and power, Victoria fell into a deep depression when her husband died in 1861 and ever since she wore black every day for the rest of her

A law hat stated that people could not grow there own grains and another that gave people the rights they deserve. Two laws that changed everything, Two laws put into effect significantly changed the lives of so many poor people in the victorian era.

In the late 1800s and early 1900s, the way individuals lived is vastly different from how we live in modern times.  During this time period, mass society developed.  Mass society was the overpopulation of people coming into European countries looking for work.  All types of people flooded into the cities.  Upper-class men brought their families.  Young men and women came looking for work.  The sudden and extraordinary increase in population led to an expansion in new products, markets, jobs, and transportation.  In turn, the tremendous progress encouraged the growth of industrial prosperity.   Through its emergence in London, changes and advancements made during this time period revolutionized the working environment and set a precedent for the relationship between industry and the working person that would leave a lasting impression on the world.  The large in increase in population also had some negative effects on the well-being of the city and its citizens.

great prosperity in Great Britain's literature. The Victorian Age produced a variety of changes. Political and social reform produced a variety of reading among all classes. The lower-class became more self-conscious, the middle class more powerful and the rich became more vulnerable. The novels of Charles Dickens, the poems of Alfred,

19th Century Victorian London was a vastly different place to the London that we’re familiar with today. Medicine was nowhere near the standard it is today, personal hygiene was almost non existent in some areas, and overcrowding, poverty, and disease were the major problems experienced by Victorian Londoners. Due to these circumstances, death at an early age was extremely common, especially in the poor population. The BBC Victorian Britain section of it’s website states that a baby born in ‘the 1830’s could expect to live to only 29’.(Daunton, BBC, Death in the City) Prominent diseases included cholera, typhoid, smallpox, scarlet fever, and measles, mumps and rubella.(McAlpine, BBC America, 5 Horrible Diseases You Might Have Caught in Victorian