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People living in Victorian times were resourceful and inventive. Industry was well developed and there was significant input to the infrastructure (including roads, transport systems, drainage and water supplies) of towns and cities. Throughout the Victorian Empire (which included many countries around the world) railways were established, roads and civic buildings constructed, schools and libraries built, and water and sewage services provided to many homes. [http://www.jeron.je/thatwasjersey/eng.html] In 1882, [[Thomas Edison]] opened the world’s first steam-powered electricity generating station in London.
An important aspect of this period is the large-scale expansion of British imperial power (Once a maritime superpower and ruler of half the world). The period saw the rise of a highly idealized notion of what is “English” or what constitutes an “Englishman.” This notion is obviously tied very closely to the period’s models for proper behavior, and is also tied very closely to England’s imperial enterprises. [https://faculty.unlv.edu/kirschen/handouts/victorian.html]
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Industrial revolution powered Britain to global pre-eminence and initiated social reform. Cotton was one of the driving forces of the Industrial Revolution. [http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/] It was in the nineteenth century that the real impact of steam was fully felt. ''Steam changed everything.'' New mass communication via the telegraph, newspapers and - from 1876 - the telephone meant that the rate of change accelerated further. [http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/speed_01.shtml]
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The nineteenth century was a world of free markets, free trade and laissez-faire government, with all moves towards paternalism - in areas such as public health and poor laws - fiercely resisted. It was every man for himself. [http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/speed_01.shtml]
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People living in Victorian times were resourceful and inventive. Industry was well developed and there was significant input to the infrastructure (including roads, transport systems, drainage and water supplies) of towns and cities. Throughout the Victorian Empire (which included many countries around the world) railways were established, roads and civic buildings constructed, schools and libraries built, and water and sewage services provided to many homes. [http://www.jeron.je/thatwasjersey/eng.html] Between 1840 and 1880 some 15 thousand miles of railways were opened in Britain. [http://www.victorianweb.org/victorian/technology/railways/railway4.html] The spread of railways stimulated communication. In 1882, [[Thomas Edison]] opened the world’s first steam-powered electricity generating station in London.
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Victorian era was a tremendously exciting period when many artistic styles, literary schools, as well as, social, political and religious movements flourished. [http://www.victoriaspast.com/FrontPorch/victorianera.htm]
Victorian painters include [[William Turner|Joseph Mallord William Turner]], [[John William Waterhouse]], [[George Frederick Watts]], Lord Leighton, E. J. Poynter, [[Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema]], [[James Whistler|James Abbott McNeill Whistler]], Edwin Weeks, Albert Moore and William Stephen Coleman.
Victorian painters include [[William Turner|Joseph Mallord William Turner]], [[John William Waterhouse]], [[George Frederick Watts]], Lord Leighton, E. J. Poynter, [[Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema]], [[James Whistler|James Abbott McNeill Whistler]], Edwin Weeks, Albert Moore and William Stephen Coleman.
Victorian authors include names like: [[William Wordsworth]], [[Elizabeth Barrett Browning]], [[Charles Dickens]], [[George Eliot]], [[Robert Louis Stevenson]], [[Alfred Lord Tennyson]], [[H. G. Wells]], William Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell, [[Lewis Carroll]], William Morris, [[Oscar Wilde]], [[Thomas Hardy]], and [[Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]]. [http://www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians/authors#sthash.Vxz4vS8N.dpuf]
Victorian authors include names like: [[William Wordsworth]], [[Elizabeth Barrett Browning]], [[Charles Dickens]], [[George Eliot]], [[Robert Louis Stevenson]], [[Alfred Lord Tennyson]], [[H. G. Wells]], William Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell, [[Lewis Carroll]], William Morris, [[Oscar Wilde]], [[Thomas Hardy]], and [[Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]]. [http://www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians/authors#sthash.Vxz4vS8N.dpuf]
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