Parliament assume almost absolute responsibility for running the country during George I and George II reigns.

First time for England having a Prime Minister (Sir Robert Walpole Whig 1721 to 1742)

The Enlightenment was almost finished, and with it the loss of the American Colonies in 1776.

Agricultural Revolution rural population landless and destitute. But also created a massive increase in agricultural production.

Industrial Revolution transform the industry from hand-work to machine-work in factories.

IR= Reform bill 1832 organized opinion.

Victorian Era1837-1901

The Victorians believed that peace was a

necessary pre-condition of long-term prosperity.

Major Events of Victoria's Reign.

Zulu: The True Story

Women's Rights

The Irish Famine

Irish Home Rule: An imagined future

The Chartist Movement 1838 - 1848

Reforming Acts

Beneath the Surface: A Country of Two Nations

The Boer Wars

The Crimean War

Victoria's empire

Pros Cons

Industrial Revolution. new markets, a consumer boom and greater prosperity for most of the propertied classes.

It also brought rapid, and sometimes chaotic change as towns and cities expanded at a pace which precluded orderly growth.

poor housing conditions, long working hours, the ravages of infectious disease and premature death were the inevitable consequence.

It also endured a devastating famine from 1845 - 1847, the result of a failed potato crop among a peasant population dangerously dependent on one food source for sheer existence.

During the Victorian age, Britain was the world's most powerful nation.

Though not always effortlessly, it was able to maintain a world order which rarely threatened Britain's wider strategic interests.

The single European conflict fought during Victoria's reign - the Crimean War of 1854 - 1856 - contrasted markedly with the 18th century, during which the British were involved in at least five major wars, none of which lasted less than seven years.

Her Politic practice to be informed about Government policy but remaining Neutral marked the position of the Crown in the Constitution.

People identify with her Queen, she was a simple woman and widow. Popular support of Monarchy

Child labor, workhouses - are the values of that time really something worth reviving?

Victorian forebears were positive, moralistic, upstanding right.

Her essentially middle-class views and life-style led to an affirmation of values, paternalistic integrity, the sobriety and puritanism of public life

in 1980’s Thatcher Government wished to return.

The Rise of Working Class

Industrial Revolution start its second stage, Britain became “The workshop of the World”.

Reform Act 1832 which granted franchise to tenants of land.

Social reforms creation of Police force, free compulsory education 1872, gradual legal recognition of trade unions, extension of the vote- town laborers 1867, agricultural laboures 1884

1893 founding Labour Party by Keir Hardie.

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