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1. Origins of U.S.
SOCIAL STUDIES
SUBJECT FOR
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Victorian Era
1820 - 1914

2. -Thomas Carlyle
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“The Old has passed away, but alas, the
New appears not in its stead; the Time is
still in pangs of travail with the New”.

3. The main organizing principles
of Victorian society
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Historical period, United
Kingdom
Overview Gender and Class
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Spreading throughout the
world
Victorian Culture
and Art
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Global Dominance
Victorian British Empire
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Workshop of the World
Victorian British
Economy
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Religion & Science
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4. Overview
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5. The Victorian Era
Victorian era, in British history, the period between
approximately 1820 and 1914, corresponding roughly
but not exactly to the period of Queen Victoria’s reign
(1837–1901) and characterized by a class-based society,
a growing number of people able to vote, a growing
state and economy, and Britain’s status as the most
powerful empire in the world.
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6. Overview
During the Victorian period, Britain was a powerful
nation with a rich culture. It had a stable government, a
growing state, and an expanding franchise. It also
controlled a large empire, and it was wealthy, in part
because of its degree of industrialization and its imperial
holdings and in spite of the fact that three-fourths or
more of its population was working-class.
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Gender and Class 02

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Victorian society was organized hierarchically. While
race, religion, region, and occupation were all
meaningful aspects of identity and status, the main
organizing principles of Victorian society were gender
and class. Victorian gender ideology was premised on
the “doctrine of separate spheres.” This stated that men
and women were different and meant for different
things.
Division of Classes

9. Gender & Designated Roles
Man Woman
Men belonged in the public sphere.
They were meant to participate in politics
and in paid work.
While women belonged in the private
sphere. They women were meant to run
households and raise families.
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Most Victorian Britons were Christians. The Anglican
churches of England, Wales, and Ireland were the state
churches (of which the monarch was the nominal head)
and dominated the religious landscape. There was some
religious diversity, as Britain also was home to other
non-Anglican Protestants (notably Methodists), Roman
Catholics, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, and others (at the
end of the period there were even a few atheists).
Religion

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Alongside their faith, Victorians made and appreciated
developments in science. The best-known Victorian
scientific development is that of the
theory of evolution. It is typically credited to
Charles Darwin, but versions of it were developed by
earlier thinkers as well, and the pseudoscience of
eugenics was an ugly outgrowth of Victorian
evolutionary theory. Victorians were also fascinated by
the emerging discipline of psychology and by the physics
of energy.
Science

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Victorian British Empire 04

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Global
Dominance
The Victorian British Empire dominated the globe,
though its forms of rule and influence were uneven
and diverse. The traffic of people and goods
between Britain and its colonies was constant,
complex, and multidirectional. Britain shaped the
empire, the empire shaped Britain, and colonies
shaped one another.

15. 1854-1856
The Crimean War
1857
India’s First War of
Independence
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1878-80
Second Anglo-Afghan War
Famous Wars of Victorian Era
1899-1902
Second Boer War

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Victorian British
Economy 05

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Britain’s status as a world political power was bolstered
by a strong economy, which grew rapidly between 1820
and 1873. With the earliest phases of industrialization
over by about 1840, the British economy expanded.
Britain became the richest country in the world, but
many people worked long hours in harsh conditions.
Yet, overall, standards of living were rising.
Economic Boom

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Industries that revolutionised Great Britain
Electrical
Chemistry
1900-1950
Cotton and
Steam Engine
1800-1850
Iron and Steel
1850-1900

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Victorian Art and
Culture 06

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More access made British cultural products more
important. Not only did they reveal much about the
society from which they emerged, but during the
Victorian period Britain was the cultural capital of the
English-speaking world (including the United States,
Canada, Australia, and New Zealand). Victorian
performance and print culture were rich and varied, a
blend of melodrama, spectacle, and morality.
Spreading the Culture

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Theatres thrived. Melodrama—which featured evil
villains, virtuous heroines, and intricate plots—was the
most important and most popular genre early on; later,
sensation drama became popular. Even more popular
were music halls, which featured varied programs of
singing, dancing, sketches, and more; these emerged in
the 1850s, and by the 1870s there were hundreds across
Britain, some seating thousands of people. Music halls
attracted people of all classes.
Melodrama and Theatres

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As reading became less of a privilege of the wealthy and
more of a pastime of the common British citizen,
publications such as periodicals flourished. These
magazines provided monthly installments of news
articles, satiric essays, poetry and fiction.
Great Authors of Victorian Era
Charles Dickens
Arthur Conan Doyle
Oscar Wilde
Lewis Caroll
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While women's rights were extremely limited in this era,
Feminist ideas spread among the educated middle classes,
discriminatory laws were repealed, and the women's
suffrage movement gained momentum.
As reading became more accessible many women took up
writing.
This era was cherished by many great women authors like
George Eliot
Brontë Sisters
Redefining Gender Roles

24. “The empire on which the
sun never set was alsothe
empire on which the blood
wounds never dried.”
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25. THANKS!
This presentation was made by
Lakshya Raj Kalra and moderated by
Trisha D. Sahu.
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