Victorian England
- Created by: Eileigh
- Created on: 21-09-18 11:09
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- Victorian England
- Class Division
- This was a long period of 'prosperity,peace, refined responsiveness,and national self possession'
- The aristocrat class became part of the upper class
- Crime
- the courts and the Judiciary system had more power than they should have.
- They had no access to lawyers etc...
- The victorians were very worried about crime and they had very severe punishments.
- punishments such as hanging.
- offences went up from about 5,000 a year in 1800 to over 20,000 a year in 1840
- Poverty increase at a similar rate to crime.
- Religion
- Protestant/ Church of England developed
- Greatest burst of church building since the middle ages
- Some began to doubt the bible because of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
- The Industrial revolution and new scientific ideas made people believe that anything could be possible
- The number of people who got an education increased
- Church began to lose its power over people
- Scientific advancement
- First time scientist had been seen as a professional its own right.
- Medical Advancement
- Health and Hygiene
- They believed that disease was because of bad smells not bad hygiene.
- Public Health Act
- Began to learn about the germ theory.
- Large epidemics
- Treatments.
- Began to understand how to successfully use antiseptics, Anaesthetics, X-rays
- They would use herbs as a way to cure people
- Health and Hygiene
- Supernatural beliefs
- People began to believe in the supernatural more than ever because the Theory of Evolution challengedthier religious beliefs.
- Also as more was found out about what the world could do in the industrial revolution people doubted where the limits would be.
- Spiritualist movement.
- Class Division
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