Concetti Chiave
- Queen Victoria ascended the throne at 18, prompting laws for stability and avoiding political revolutions through social and economic reforms.
- Religion held significant influence, promoting education and alcohol abstinence, while newspapers became a central information source.
- Despite stability, working classes demanded more rights, including voting for all adult males, amidst a revolution in travel and communication.
- During the late Victorian years, Britain faced challenges in African colonization, even as it saw an economic and social boom with new infrastructure and industrialization.
- Women's rights improved slightly, while technological advancements like the telephone and telegraph highlighted tensions between religious beliefs and scientific progress.
The early Victorian age
In 1837 Queen Victoria come to the throne when she was just 18 years old. In this period were made a lot of laws to find stability and to avoid political revolutions: social and economical reforms were made.Working hours was limited to ten. Poor families had the support of institutions and poor people helped each other. Religion had a strong power during the early Victorian age: it encouraged study and alcohol abstinence.
A very important instrument became the newspaper, that was the centre of information for all people poor and rich. The estate wa able to avoid a revolution because there was a situation of stability but the working classes asked for more rights like the vote for all adult males. Travel and communications were revolutioned.
The late years of queen Victoria reign
In this period Britain was competing with other countries for the colonization in Africa, it won some wars in south Africa but the control of the colonies was becoming very difficult for queen Victoria.
Anyway it was a period of economic and social boom:a lot of museums,libraries, buildings and railway station were built but also police stations and prisons. Industrialization brought Britain to be the first economic power of the world. Woman obtained more rights but their life remained restricted to the domestic life. Then telephone and telegraph were invented. With the progress of these years started the conflict between the religious faith and scientific discovery.
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