Periodicals And Political Periodicals And Political History Fun FactsHistory Fun Facts

By: Rachel, Chris, Talibah, and Jennifer

Punch Magazine Punch Magazine was started in 1841 by Henry

Mayhew, Joseph Coyne, and Mark Lemon. It was a comic and humor magazine that became

very popular. Great Expectations was published in installments

in Punch Many authors like William Thackery were

published in Punch “What Induced Him To Marry Her?” is one of the

many pictures that were published in Punch

The Illustrated London News

Herbert Ingram published the first edition of the Illustrated London News on May 14,1842.

Magazines with pictures or woodcuts sold more copies in the 1800s. It was a weekly magazine that Ingram used to advance the cause for social reform. It sold more than 65,000 copies a week and more when it covered special events.

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The Scapegoat, By: William Holman Hunt

The Seamstress, By: Anna Elizabeth Blunden

1854

1969Both of these pictures could be found in the All Year Round journal during the Victorian Era. Mr. Hunt and Mrs. Blunden created many different paintings, not just ones about the Victorian Era.

Anti-Slavery

Many of the cheaper goods were made in Birmingham and were known as “Brummagem ware”

These goods were exchanged for slaves! Any slaves who survived the long journey from

Africa to the Atlantic were taken to shore and sold to the plantation owners in The West Indies

In 1807 slave trading was abolished from the British colonies and it became illegal to carry slaves in British ships!

In 1833 Wilberforce’s efforts were finally rewarded when the Abolition of Slavery Act was passed.

Chartism It was a movement established by

working men in 1836,it was to achieve parliamentary democracy to step towards social and economic reform.

The charter made six political demands

Chartism was the first working class movement

The Corn LawsAfter the French War the Parliament passed the

Corn Laws and originated in 1815. They stated that no foreign corn could be

imported until the domestic corn cost 80/- per quarter.

The high price caused the cost of food to increase causing the domestic market to depress.

They caused much distress among the working class, causing them to have to pay high prices for food because they couldn’t grow their own.

In 1846 the Corn Laws were repealed thanks to the Anti-Corn-Law-League.

It as the first popular association formed in Britain with a prime interest in foreign affairs.

The League was founded on April 28,1847. It embodied radical working-class

members to have a say in the way domestic and foreign affairs were handled.

The People’s International League was formed partially by Thomas Carlyle.

Barbra Bodichon was one of the founders of the women’s rights movement in Britain.

The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Society worked very hard to achieve equality and had many branches.

The Women’s Social & Political Union was one of these branches and as founded in 1903.

In February of 1918 female householders of at least 30 gained the right to vote.

In 1928 the right to vote was extended to all women on the same terms as men.

QUEEN VICTORIA Queen Victoria was the daughter of the duke of Kent and Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg and as born in 1819.

She inherited the thrown at eighteen and had nine children, four sons & five daughters, with her husband, William IV.

She organized various reforms and innovations like the Great Exhibition of 1851 which caused great popularity for the British Monarchy.

Victoria’s long reign witnessed an evolution in English politics and the expansion of the British Empire, as well as political and social reforms.

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