Victorian Britain

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Call Number: BOCD 941.08 Al Oversize
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 2nd Floor 6-week checkout	BOCD 941.08 Al Oversize	6-week checkout	On Shelf

Compact discs.
The Victorian paradox -- Victoria's early reign: 1837-1861 -- The industrial revolution: 1750-1830 -- Railways and steamships -- Parliamentary reform and chartism -- The upper and middle class woman -- The working class woman -- The state church and evangelical revival -- The Oxford movement and catholicism -- Work and working class life -- Poverty and the "Hungry forties" -- Ireland, famine, and Robert Peel.
Scotland and Wales -- Progress and optimism -- China and the opium war -- Crimean war: 1854-1856 -- Indian Mutiny: 1857 -- Victorian Britain and the American civil war -- British in Africa: 1840-1880 -- Victorian literature I -- Art and music -- Science -- Medicine and public health -- Architecture.
Education -- Trade unions and the labour party -- Crime and punishment -- Gladstone and disraeli: 1865-1881 -- Ireland and home rule -- Democracy and its discontents -- The British in Africa: 1880-1901 -- Later Victorian literature -- Leisure -- Domestic servants -- Victoria after Albert: 1861-1901 -- The Victorian legacy.
Lecturer, Patrick Allitt.
Examines how the Victorians lived with social and economic contradictions and how Britain changed between the 1830s and 1900.

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