Post on 24-Feb-2016
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Life in Eighteenth Century England
Overview• 1780’s Industrial Revolution• Farming• Rural – urban shift• 1712 importance of steam discovered• Beginning of Empire• 1707 Act of Union
Society
• 1700 population c. 6.5 million, • 1801 c. 9 million plus• Land• Class Society• Half population lived below subsistence level• Alcohol a problem
Towns
• Grew larger• New Industrial Towns• Improvements for some• Slum conditions for others
Agriculture• New Inventions• Practice of slaughtering livestock• Crop rotation changes• Enclosure developed• Selective breeding developed• Diet
Homes
• Luxury• Country Homes• Robert Adam• Chippendale et al• The poor• The Working Class
Chippendale
Hepplewhite
Sheraton
Clothing
• Men• Women• Fashion Important
Leisure
• Traditional Games• Horse Racing• Theatre• Assembly Rooms• Pleasure Gardens• Cricket• Spa’s and seaside• Reading• Blood sports• Public executions• Grand Tour of Europe
Education
• Charity Schools• Wealthy boys schools• Wealthy girls schools• Protestants
Transport
• Acts of Parliament• Tolls• Canals• Packhorse• Highwaymen• Smuggling
Medicine
• Anatomical knowledge• Surgeons• Scurvy• Smallpox inoculation• Vaccination• Superstition
Art and Science
• Gainsborough and Reynolds• Academy of Arts• Oxygen• Cavendish• Herschel• Telford
Religion
• Church Services• Drop in numbers amongst poor• Whitefield• Wesley• Revival