Victorian Trade Hall Research Paper

“The empire on which the sun never sets” was used to describe the British empire during Queen Victoria’s reign, also known as the Victorian Era. Queen Victoria assumed control of her reign at the young age of eighteen, and her successful reign lasted for over sixty years. Britain was an extremely large empire during Queen Victoria’s rule; her ruling was filled with powerful changes, politically and economically, and advancements that left a lasting impact. While the Victorian era was an important era, many aspects of it are unique in relation to today’s times. For example, the food eaten during the Victorian era was quite different than the food eaten in today’s period. During the Victorian era, the various social classes ate different types of food. There were three different social classes: the lower class, the middle class, and the upper class. The people of each class’s meals depended on the ingredients available for their circumstances (Brookfield). From the lower class, who ate low-quality food, to the higher class, who ate high-quality food, the type of food and amount of food affected the people of each social class in many ways.

Life in Victorian London was hard. The middle class could easily go into debt and fall into poverty. The workhouses were absolutely awful they were designed to punish the poor. Therefore some people chose other options for living. “Life in the workhouse was so hard some took their chances on the street,” (Warren 17). Schools were very terrible. The food was often terrible with little to no health concerns, but the kids who went to school should be considered lucky. The jobs given to kids were much worse than bad food. Girls as young as 12 were forced into prostitution and boys chimney sweeps and often got lung cancer. In the end, Victorian London was a terrible place to live especially for the poor.

Great Britain is a country with rich history and a culture that is heavily intertwined with that of the United States of America. Culture is a conglomeration of features that define a country’s social and behavioral norms such as weather, geography, military history, and its civilian population. Over time these characteristics have shaped Great Britain into what is today.

A bunch of research has shed light on how early some children during this time period started working in the Victorian Era.  Some children started working as early as a mere eight and a half years old to twelve years old, working in factories, repairing machine equipment that was tedious or required small hands to fix, cleaning factory floors or chimneys or working in mines (Humphries 1).  The machines that children were working on were dangerous and often resulted in injury due to no safety features on them.  The kids working on them had to be careful or they could very well lose a finger or hand, which would lead to them losing their job (Cunnington).

The old Bailey is known as Justice Hall, the Sessions House, and the Central Criminal Court. The building has been remodeled several times throughout the years. It was named after the street in which it was located, just off Newgate Street and next to Newgate Prison, in the western part of the City of London. In other words it is the criminal court of England and

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.

In victorian Britain children above the age of 4 had to go and work in a workhouse like this one:

By the 20th century, empire had evolved to the point of total collapse and the next evolution was rise of the nation state. At the peak of the British Empire, its colonial rule expanded over the whole globe. In particular, the colonies in the Middle East and colony in India are great examples of the function of the British Empire. When the Ottoman Empire was split up into smaller countries among the British and French Empire with little regard for the people living there, tension arose. In Palestine, the Jewish people and the Palestinian Arabs were promised land under the Balfour Declaration (Tusan, Lecture, 4/20). The Declaration was not acted upon and the Arabs did not get what was promised to them, the Jewish people however did. The state

Great Britain was founded in 1707. It is an island located in northwest of continental Europe and is surrounded by four seas. Great Britain is made up of England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland. It has a population of around sixty-eight million people. Great Britain’s economy is made up of four main points: markets, private property, rule of law, and entrepreneurship. These four main points contribute to Great Britain as a capitalist country.

During the Victorian Era from 1873-1901, the working class was the backbone of English cities and did not get the recognition or help they deserved. People that were in the working class often had to do the types of work that no one else wanted to do, or jobs that paid almost nothing. Child labor was typical in working class families around this time of England’s history, no one was excused from work. After a long day of work, workers would return to their homes where the living conditions were atrocious and often over packed and unsanitary. Due to these living conditions the health of a person was so appalling that many people in the working class would die at a young age. Crime would often occur in alley ways and the poorest areas of England.

A colonial seamstress is a person who created clothing specifically for females. The fabric used in these dresses consisted of simple patterns and plain earth-tone colors. She/he would take the fabric and sew all the garments together by hand, this would take approximately a week depending on how complicating the design was. A colonial seamstress would add lace and ribbon as finishing touches. When the dress was make the owner would come and the seamstress will make sure the dress fits.

In the nineteenth century, the harsh consequences for committing crimes depended on various factors, including social status, appearance, behavior and gender. The law was biased towards those who were both superior in appearance and thoroughly educated. Women were seen as respectable but naïve rather than murderers. Through his distinction of characters, Dickens shows his interest of profiling in his novel Great Expectations.

the Victorian women's clothes were sexual , exposing her body to show woman's isolation from the world of work. The female body had to be delicate, beautiful and made to represent women's physical being rather than her mental sophistication as she was viewed to be an object of satisfaction rather than a human being that is actually equal to man. By wearing dresses that resembled their fragility, women became walking symbols of their social roles, wife, mother, domestic manager.

While standards for “proper” behavior hold steadfast throughout nineteenth century’s England, Christian beliefs and moral standards that hold concrete in the beginning of the Victorian Era, begin to crack towards the middle, as a result of major scientific publications and theories that contradict much of the Christian faith. Men and women of the upper and higher middle classes receive books to guide them on “proper” etiquette in public, and if any individual digresses from these rules, their name arises in gossip everywhere, until another’s mistake becomes more interesting. Despite this farcical behavior, many men and women with an education, ironically also belonging to the upper and higher

All schools have a different environment, whether or not they teach the same principles. That is why it is usually hard for new kids who move to another school, because it is completely different from the school they went to before. Even schools throughout the United States, which are supposed to teach by the same standards and principles, all have their different ways of how the school itself functions. However, the difference between schools is even more drastic when you take into consideration schools from other countries, or times. For example, the schools that students attend are very much different than the schools in England during the Victorian Era. “Hard Times” by Charles