VICTORIAN AGE by Alessandra Fontana https://padlet.com/alessandrafon97/zyvj3ojzc6ii en-us 2018-04-19 10:48:35 UTC 2024-11-21 20:22:10 UTC hello@padlet.com alessandrafon97 https://padlet.com/alessandrafon97/zyvj3ojzc6ii/wish/253357043 2018-04-19 11:03:29 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandrafon97/zyvj3ojzc6ii/wish/253357043 BORN 24 MAY 1819 alessandrafon97 https://padlet.com/alessandrafon97/zyvj3ojzc6ii/wish/253357714 Alexandrina Victoria was born at Kensington Palace on 24 May 1819 from Edward and Victoria of Germany. ]]> 2018-04-19 11:07:52 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandrafon97/zyvj3ojzc6ii/wish/253357714 UNHAPPY CHILDHOOD alessandrafon97 https://padlet.com/alessandrafon97/zyvj3ojzc6ii/wish/253358917 Her father died when she was just born so with her protective mother she lived a lonely and unhappy childhood ]]> 2018-04-19 11:15:02 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandrafon97/zyvj3ojzc6ii/wish/253358917 CROWNED AT 18 YARS OLD alessandrafon97 https://padlet.com/alessandrafon97/zyvj3ojzc6ii/wish/253360342 She was crowned in 1837 when she was only 18 years old. She ruled for a very long time until she died in 1901]]> 2018-04-19 11:21:57 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandrafon97/zyvj3ojzc6ii/wish/253360342 A GREAT ERA OF REFORMS alessandrafon97 https://padlet.com/alessandrafon97/zyvj3ojzc6ii/wish/253365105 The Victorian age was a great era of reforms.
The Queen Victoria’s long rule was characterized by a great expansion[1] with the doctrine of FREE TRADE and a series of social and political reforms which improved the conditions of work and life. 

[1]Queen Victoria became Empress of India. 
]]> 2018-04-19 11:39:31 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandrafon97/zyvj3ojzc6ii/wish/253365105 TRANSINTION TO DEMOCRACY alessandrafon97 https://padlet.com/alessandrafon97/zyvj3ojzc6ii/wish/253751519 During the Victorian age, Britain attended the transition to democracy.]]> 2018-04-20 09:43:00 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandrafon97/zyvj3ojzc6ii/wish/253751519 STILL AN OLIGARCHY alessandrafon97 https://padlet.com/alessandrafon97/zyvj3ojzc6ii/wish/253756047 In the early 19th  century Britain was still an oligarchy and most people like the working classes  were excluded from public affairs.
Parliament was controlled by the upper classes like the landowners. ]]> 2018-04-20 10:06:43 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandrafon97/zyvj3ojzc6ii/wish/253756047 FIRST REFORM ACT alessandrafon97 https://padlet.com/alessandrafon97/zyvj3ojzc6ii/wish/253757276 With the FIRST REFORM ACT in 1832 the middle classes had the right to elect the members of Parliament.]]> 2018-04-20 10:13:51 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandrafon97/zyvj3ojzc6ii/wish/253757276 SUFFRAGETTES alessandrafon97 https://padlet.com/alessandrafon97/zyvj3ojzc6ii/wish/253758067 The women were not represented. So in this period SUFFRAGETTES, a national movement advocating female suffrage, fought for their rights. ]]> 2018-04-20 10:17:51 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandrafon97/zyvj3ojzc6ii/wish/253758067 FACTORY ACTS alessandrafon97 https://padlet.com/alessandrafon97/zyvj3ojzc6ii/wish/253763359 These acts gradually improved the situation of the working classes in 1833]]> 2018-04-20 10:43:36 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandrafon97/zyvj3ojzc6ii/wish/253763359 EDUCATION ACT robertafrasca88 https://padlet.com/alessandrafon97/zyvj3ojzc6ii/wish/253769600 In 1870 William Gladstone introduced the compulsory
(obbligatoria) elementary education. 
This conduced Britain in a low level of illiteracy.]]> 2018-04-20 11:18:09 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandrafon97/zyvj3ojzc6ii/wish/253769600 SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS robertafrasca88 https://padlet.com/alessandrafon97/zyvj3ojzc6ii/wish/253770800 Development in MEDICINE, TRANSPORTS, INDUSTRY, ART AND CULTURE...]]> 2018-04-20 11:24:56 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandrafon97/zyvj3ojzc6ii/wish/253770800 MEDICAL PROGRESS robertafrasca88 https://padlet.com/alessandrafon97/zyvj3ojzc6ii/wish/253773138
  • Anaesthetics;
  • Antiseptics;
  • More hospitals and better surgery;
    • ]]>     2018-04-20 11:34:50 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandrafon97/zyvj3ojzc6ii/wish/253773138     TRANSPORT PROGRESS robertafrasca88 https://padlet.com/alessandrafon97/zyvj3ojzc6ii/wish/253774947 RAILWAY LINES ]]> 2018-04-20 11:42:35 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandrafon97/zyvj3ojzc6ii/wish/253774947 PARLIAMENT CHANGE alessandrafon97 https://padlet.com/alessandrafon97/zyvj3ojzc6ii/wish/254299204 WHIGS and TORIES changed their name:

    WHIGS --> LIBERALS

    TORIES --> CONSERVATIVES 
    ]]>     2018-04-23 09:28:40 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandrafon97/zyvj3ojzc6ii/wish/254299204     A NEW HOUSE alessandrafon97 https://padlet.com/alessandrafon97/zyvj3ojzc6ii/wish/254299994
    LABOUR PARTY
    a socialist group composed by the working classes

    ]]>     2018-04-23 09:31:36 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandrafon97/zyvj3ojzc6ii/wish/254299994     UNIVERSAL EXPOSITION alessandrafon97 https://padlet.com/alessandrafon97/zyvj3ojzc6ii/wish/254302974 CRYSTAL PALACE, LONDON 1851

    Built and then relocated in an other site. It was distructed in 1936 by a fire.]]>     2018-04-23 09:43:44 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandrafon97/zyvj3ojzc6ii/wish/254302974     CHARLES DICKENS alessandrafon97 https://padlet.com/alessandrafon97/zyvj3ojzc6ii/wish/254305341 He was the most important writer in Englad during the Victorian age.
    One of his masterpiece was Oliver Twist. This reflect the poors' life conditions.  ]]>     2018-04-23 09:53:33 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandrafon97/zyvj3ojzc6ii/wish/254305341     HAIR alessandrafon97 https://padlet.com/alessandrafon97/zyvj3ojzc6ii/wish/254311161  Long hair styled in an updo braid ]]> 2018-04-23 10:20:29 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandrafon97/zyvj3ojzc6ii/wish/254311161 DRESSES: alessandrafon97 https://padlet.com/alessandrafon97/zyvj3ojzc6ii/wish/254311289 A long slim torso with  a wide hips]]> 2018-04-23 10:21:01 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandrafon97/zyvj3ojzc6ii/wish/254311289