Changes During The Victorian Era

The Victorian Era

Throughout the years of 1837 to 1901, there was rapid changes in development during the Victorian Era. Some examples of the new development that took hold during the Victorian Era include advancement in medical, scientific, and technological knowledge, to the changes in population growth and location. Throughout the drastic changes. the people of the countries mood changed. Their moods started out with confidence and optimism, then towards the end of the Victorian time period it turned into a economic boom which led to uncertainty and doubt regarding Britain’s place in the world (History in Focus”). The Victorian Era took place in a time of drastic changes in history, the time in history of when Queen Victoria ruled, and

Most historians call this period in time the Industrial Revolution. Their improvements in science led to remarkable changes in medicine during this period in time. The most significant type of medicine breakthrough during the Victorian Era was the antiseptics. Antiseptics was invented by Joseph Lister, in the year of 1867. When Queen Victoria took chloroform for the birth of her son in 1853, antiseptics was then famously publicized. Some inventions that were created in the Victorian Era were the telephone, radio, toilet, cameras, and trains. They also had an increase in specialization, developments in surgery, and they had built more hospital buildings. From the beginning to the end of the Victorian Era they encountered the birth and also the spread in perfection to their government. The Victorians believed in perfection of their representative government across their British Empire. “The Victorians encouraged hard work, respectability, social difference and religious conformity” (Victorian Britain). They also believed in peace, which to them was a necessary pre-condition of long-term prosperity. Queen Victoria holds the longest reign of any other British Monarch in

On the top of the different types of social classes lied the upper class. The upper class included aristocrats, nobles, dukes, lord temporals, ecclesiastical (priests), and other royal families. The upper class is a class of nobility, wealth, and the privilege of the highest social order. If someone was a part of the upper class, money was no object so assets such as land and jewels were at their disposal (“Aristocratic Life in Victorian England”). Since the upper class knew they were at the top of everyone, they demanded that the classes that were beneath them were to treat them accordingly. The second type of social class is the middle class, which consists of successful industrialists, poor clerks and wealthy bankers. The reason why clerks were apart of the middle class is because social class wasn’t defined by a person’s income, it was defined by what the source was. During this time in history the middle class grew in size and importance, it was about fifteen percent of the population in Great Britain. The middle class people valued hard work, sexual mortality, and individual responsibility. The third and final type of social class is the lower class. In the lower class there were the people who did physical labor, which were jobs that the other classes did not want to be doing. An example of a lower class person is a farmer. The lower class were either paid