The period of adjustment led to many workers living in extreme poverty and even dying on city streets of starvation in Victorian times. The population of Great Britain actually trebled during the 19th century. People were living longer, having larger families, infant mortality was down and immigra...
Drawing primarily upon data from the various censuses conducted in Ireland after the Act of Union in 1800, this paper seeks to elucidate the changing position of older people in Ireland during the Victorian period. Following the Great Famine of 18451849, it is argued, Ireland was transformed from...
During the first two decades of the twentieth century, the liberal conception of rights and responsibilities, which had underwritten the political and social system of the Victorian era, began to disintegrate as central governments increasingly intervened in domains, such as social welfare and ...
Julie-Marie Strange presents a wonderful sourcebook as well as a highly critical set of arguments about the death, dying, and loss experiences of the British working classes during the late Victorian period. Strange's sources derive from what she describes as "little-used empirical ma-terial":...
But during the discussion that followed I looked around the room with tears in my eyes. Three of us have had serious mental health problems, two addictions, several have long term chronic illnesses, others carry other wounds. Some are on benefits, others are in work. Some will have a posh...
Whether the public view of poverty getting worse is accurate or not is a tough question. A lot depends on time frame.Measured by the government’s official poverty line, the percentage of Americans who were poor declined during the 1960s, plateaued during the 1970s, rose during much of the...
Making the Poor Work: Social Assistance and Activation in Sweden Management of poor relief and work demands have been controversial questions in social policy during the workhouse era of the nineteenth century as well as in current discussions on social assistance and activation of recipients. The ...
Examines the growing emphasis on scenes of rural poverty by paintings in Great Britain during the 1870s. Range of social themes and issues explored by the paintings; Artistic styles; Sample of paintings during the era.doi:10.2307/776087Howard D. Rodee...
Who was Queen Victoria, and why is the era named after her? What were the key characteristics of society during the Victorian Era? Victorian era, in British history, the period between approximately 1820 and 1914, corresponding roughly but not exactly to the period ofQueen Victoria’s reign (...
Who was Queen Victoria, and why is the era named after her? What were the key characteristics of society during the Victorian Era? Show more Victorian era, in British history, the period between approximately 1820 and 1914, corresponding roughly but not exactly to the period of Queen Victoria...