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    The document discusses key aspects of the Victorian period in Britain from 1837 to 1901, including Queen Victoria's reign, the British Empire, the industrial revolution, and major technological and social changes. Some of the pivotal developments summarized are the expansion of the empire, innovations like the steam engine and railways driving industrialization, the Great Exhibition of 1851 showcasing new inventions, Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, and the growth of labor movements and trade unions.

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    Reading and Writing Skills for

    Students of Literature in English: The


    Victorian Period
    Enric Monforte
    Jacqueline Hurtley
    Bill Phillips
    The Victorian Period
    Queen Victoria (1819-1901)

    http://www.general-anaesthesia.com/images/queen-victoria.html
    Queen Victoria (r.1837-1901)

    http://midnightramblin.wordpress.com
    The British Empire

    http://www.bbc.co.uk
    The British Empire

    http://

    http://www.learning-
    connections.co.uk/curric/cur_pri/victorians/handson/answers/hands_1.html
    The British Empire

    http://www.spacebob.us/pages/articles/assets/british_empire.jpg
    James Watt (1736-1819)

    http://www.general-
    anaesthesia.com/images/james-
    watt.html
    The industrial revolution:
    the steam railways

    http://cultureofsoccer.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/steam_train.jpg
    The industrial revolution:
    the steam ships

    http://www.cottontimes.co.uk/transsea.htm

    http://www.cottontimes.co.uk/transsea.htm
    London in the
    Early
    Nineteenth
    Century

    Gustave Doré and


    Blanchard Jerrold,
    Ludgate Hill-A block in
    the Street
    (1872)
    http://commons.wikimedia.org
    London

    Slum
    Neighbourhood
    in London

    by Gustave Doré

    http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/activity/I
    ndustRev/
    The Great
    Exhibition
    at the
    Crystal
    Palace
    (1851)
    The Great Exhibition at the Crystal
    Palace

    http://www.dukema
    gazine.duke.edu/d
    ukemag/issues/111
    206/images/lg_122
    206dickinson004.jp
    g
    Crystal Palace
    by Childe Hassam

    http://www.fineart-china.com/oil%20painting%20artist/Childe
    %20Hassam.html
    Charles Darwin
    (1809-1882)
    ‘I have called this principle,
    by which each slight
    variation,
    if useful, is preserved, by
    the
    term Natural Selection’

    Charles Darwin, On the


    Origin of Species by Means
    of Natural Selection (1859)
    http://www.biografiasyvidas.com/monografia/darwin /
    Trade Unions

    The Match Girls


    march on
    Parliament
    (1888)

    http://marxists.anu.edu.au/subject/
    britain/index.htm
    Graham Bell (1847-1922)

    http://com
    mons.wiki
    media.org
    /wiki/File:
    1876_Bell
    _Speakin
    g_into_Te
    lephone.j
    pg

    Telephone (1876)
    The Independent Labour Party

    Keir Hardy, founder


    of the Independent
    Labour Party
    (1893)

    http://2.bp.blogspot.com

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