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Era Of The Victorian Era

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The Victorian Era is so named after it’s ruler and one of the most influential historical figured to have ever lived, Queen Alexandrina Victoria(Born on the 24th of May 1819 and died on 22nd of January, 1901). It is the era in which British Imperial ambitions reached their peak and one full of accomplishments and upheavals, an era with its own unique outlook on matters and particularities of morality.
Historians generally agree that the era stretches from 1837 to 1901, thus encompassing the reign of its eponymous Queen. Victoria inherited the throne at the age of eighteen, on the death of her uncle, William IV. Her official title was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and in 1877 she also became The Empress of India through the Royal Titles Act.
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Finally in 1884, the Third Reform Act granted the right to vote to all men who were householders.
Britain underwent a rapid industrial revolution during the Victorian age, due to the Victorian engineers using steam power, which provided far increased production. Thus a factory system emerged and for the first time in the history of Britain there lived more people in urban areas than in the countryside, as the majority of the job market was now to be found in said factories. Railways were built and facilitated easier travel, as well ease of transport for goods.
This invariably lead to much pollution, squalor and bad hygiene as more and more people lived in cramp urban spaces, factories produced waste, and said waste was dumped into the Thames, which had been an English habit. This climaxed into The Great Stink, in the summer of 1858, which had generated a smell so foul that most of London’s population refused to leave their homes due to it. Quite a number of literary schools, artistic styles and social movements flourished during this era. It has been sometimes called the Second English Renaissance and is a culturally defining part of the British Empire’s

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