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1 18 th Century Social History

2 Oxfordshire: a parish church

3 medieval agriculture “three fields” and “strip” systems

4 Charles (“Turnip”) Townshend As Ambassador to the Netherlands, he was struck by the intensive and innovative practices there. He experimented on his own estates in East Anglia new forms of crop rotation.

5 Jethro Tull: automatic seed drill A more efficient way of seeding than scatter method

6 Joseph II: potato cultivation

7 Bleinheim Palace residence of the Duke of Marlborough (Sir John Churchill), 1709

8 modern photograph of Bleinheim Palace

9 portrait of Mr. And Mrs. Robert Andrews Thomas Gainsborough (1746)

10 Hogarth’s The Graham Children

11 A Visit to the Nursery (Jean-Honoré Fragonard)

12 The Dutton Family Joseph Zoffany (1756)

13 View of Bath in the 18 th Century

14 The Roman Baths

15 The North Promenade at Bath

16 A ball at Bath (part of “the season”)

17 A coffee house in England, 18 th Century

18 Edward Jenner and smallpox inoculation

19 Oliver Goldsmith’s The Deserted Village (1770) Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed can never be supplied.

20 Beer Street: William Hogarth

21 Gin Lane: William Hogarth

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23 "We cam na here to view your works, In hopes to be mair wise, But only, lest we gang to hell, It may be nae surprise: But when we tirl'd at your door, Your porter dought na hear us; Sae may, shou'd we to hell's yetts come, Your billy Sattan sair us!" Robert Burns 1787

24 photograph 19 th century workhouse activity

25 English workhouse 1853 work house treadmill

26 Alternative Assessment! Recite by Thursday the 4 lines of a common folk saying that begins with: Please to remember, the fifth of November… Explain the allusion. Bring required materials to class on Friday. Participate in The Challenge!


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