INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION RAILWAY FAMILY LIFE WOMEN’S RIGHTS
The Industrial Revolution Main influences (money, labour, demand, power, transport, food, machines) - “mass production”- beginning - fuel problem (less wood- coal- iron) - Image: iron & coal production
A Watt steam engine. The steam engine, fueled primarily by coal, propelled the Industrial Revolution in Britain and the worldWatt steam enginesteam enginecoalBritain
inventions and increased production (cotton/wool/ china goods)
Social Effects of the Industrial Revolution - workers joining (fair wages- better conditions) A young "drawer" pulling a coal tub along a mine gallery. [80] In Britain laws passed in 1842 and 1844 improved working conditions in mines [80]
Over London by Rail Gustave Doré c Shows the densely populated and polluted environments created in the new industrial citiesGustave Doré
(19 th c.) Britain - Most powerful – ‘workshop’ of the world- factories producing more than any country in the world - The Great Exhibition of Industries (1851) inside the Crystal Palace - Queen Victoria - Aim (show world greatness of Britain’s industry)
Why was Britain industrially strong 1- Enough natural resources: coal/iron/steel for production & exporting (production of new heavy industrial goods-machinery) -exporting (e.g. cloth) 2-strong banking system Images: The Iron Bridge, Shropshire, EnglandThe Iron BridgeShropshire
The Railway Best example of Britain’s Industrial power (19 th c.) – Six million could visit the Great Exhibition in London – At first to transport goods (cost/speed) – Then passenger trains (government/fare/quickly) – Poor conditions improved (prices fell/wages doubled/better food/gas) – Two education acts Children schooling (13) Redbrick universities (distinguish/industrial cities/science and technology) Railway use for travel and pleasure Bicycle invention The right to personal freedom (Capitalism)
Red brick Universities Universities of Liverpool & Sheiffield
Painting depicting the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway in 1830, the first inter-city railway in the world and which spawned Railway Mania due to its successopeningLiverpool and Manchester RailwayRailway Mania
Development of Railways
Family Life in 19 th c. Britain -Growth of affection -Idea of the close family -Privacy and individualism -Marriage for personal happiness -Family under the ‘master’/no equality -Women feeling useless when children grew up -Happy family life reduced in 19 th c. (strict parenting/beating/boarding schools/wife as man’s property)
The Rights of Women (19 th c.) Women as legal property –impossible to get a divorce- had to give up property upon marriage Wife beating Women’s colleges - no degrees ‘Suffragettes’- the right to vote (20 th c.) The War changed everything (factories-voting age) Liberation of women took many forms (clothes- cosmetics- smoke and drink- hair) Protests against violence, pay and work Growth of number of working women
Suffragette Images Suffragette Symbol Suffragists marching in New York, 1915 A British suffragette, c. 1910