1. Life in Eighteenth Century England

2. Overview 1780’s Industrial Revolution Farming Rural – urban shift 1712 importance of steam discovered Beginning of Empire 1707 Act of Union

3. Society 1700 population c. 6.5 million, 1801 c. 9 million plus Land Class Society Half population lived below subsistence level Alcohol a problem

4. Towns Grew larger New Industrial Towns Improvements for some Slum conditions for others

5. Agriculture New Inventions Practice of slaughtering livestock Crop rotation changes Enclosure developed Selective breeding developed Diet

6. Homes Luxury Country Homes Robert Adam Chippendale et al The poor The Working Class

7. Chippendale

8. Hepplewhite

9. Sheraton

10. Clothing Men Women Fashion Important

11. Leisure Traditional Games Horse Racing Theatre Assembly Rooms Pleasure Gardens Cricket Spa’s and seaside Reading Blood sports Public executions Grand Tour of Europe

12. Education Charity Schools Wealthy boys schools Wealthy girls schools Protestants

13. Transport Acts of Parliament Tolls Canals Packhorse Highwaymen Smuggling

14. Medicine Anatomical knowledge Surgeons Scurvy Smallpox inoculation Vaccination Superstition

15. Art and Science Gainsborough and Reynolds Academy of Arts Oxygen Cavendish Herschel Telford

16. Religion Church Services Drop in numbers amongst poor Whitefield Wesley Revival