ENGLISH LITERATURE

By grazioliaurora
  • Period: to

    Queen Victoria's reing

  • Great Exhibition of London

    -Paxton: the Crystal Palace -power of the Empire --> Industrial, tecnological and scientific progress: railways, steamoat, eletricity, telegraph, gas lighting

  • Mines Act

    No women and children

  • Emancipation of religious sects

    chatolics

  • Trade Union Act

    legalized the activities oof the unions of worker

  • Labour Party

    other political parties:
    Conservatives grew out of the Tories
    Liberal out of the Whigs

  • The poor

    New Poor Law --> workhouses