The Victorian Age
(1837-1901)
The empire on which the sun never sets
1832-1884
1839-1842 1856-1860
Social reforms
First and second opium wars
1851
Domestic affairs
Foreign affairs
1845
Great Exhibition
Irish potato famine
1854-1856
1860s
Crimean War
New political parties
1857
1876
1897
1899-1902
Indian mutiny
Queen Victoria Empress of India
Victoria's diamond jubilee
The Boer War
Title here
Title here
Title here
Potato blight
Petition for "Home Rule" by Gladstone
Irish migration
Irish Republican movement
Indian Hall
Crystal Palace, Hyde Park
Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. “Forward, the Light Brigade!
Charge for the guns!” he said. Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.[...] Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon in front of them
Volleyed and thundered;
Stormed at with shot and shell,
Boldly they rode and well,
Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of hell
Rode the six hundred.
Florence Nightingale
- Alfred Tennyson
Queen Victoria and Mohammed Abdul Karim
Queen Victoria's golden jubilee (1887)
Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee (1897)
Take up the White Man's burdensend forth the best ye breed go bind your sons to exile to serve your captives' need; to wait in heavy harness, on fluttered folk and wild your new-caught, sullen peoples, half-devil and half-child.
- Rudyard Kipling
Victorian social reforms
FIRST REFORM BILL
TEN HOURS’ ACT
SECOND REFORM BILL
NEW POOR LAW
TRADE UNION ACT
1867
1871
1832
1834
1847
1870-80
1838
1862
1884
1833
FACTORY ACT + Abolition of slavery
EDUCATION ACT
PEOPLE’S CHARTER
MINES ACT
THIRD REFORM BILL
The middle-class woman
A well-dressed woman who offers a religious tract to one of the navvies. Seeing to the religious education of the lower classes was a type of “work” engaged in by many evangelical middle-class women.
Establishment of workhouses
No more than 10 hours a day for all workers
The navvies
The noble “working man”: they are neatly dressed and diligently going about their tasks. They are construction workers, excavating sewers in Hampstead, North London.
The poor
The agrictultural workers to have lost their livelihood. The ones who cannot work because they don't have a job or a place in society. Brown shows how they are impoverished by the modern city. This paradox between extreme wealth and poverty was known as "The condition of England"
The weed seller
A ragged and barefoot plant seller on the left side, a figure whom Brown described as a “ragged wretch who has never been taught to work."
The middle class woman
A lady carrying a parasol. It is a portrait of the artist’s Brown’s wife Emma. This represents the middle class woman who didn't need to work, but whose only role was to educate the children and the management of the household.
Trade Union legally recognised; right to strike confirmed
The dogs
This dog belongs to the aristocracy, it was a kind of breed that was used during hunting parties.
The mongrel dog with a frayed rope collar stands with the group of children and stares at his more pampered counterpart, a small dog with a red coat belonging to the middle class (it wears a red coat which matches the middle class woman's). The Jack Russell is the working dog. It was usually sent inside the excavation to scare rats away.
The upper class
Two riders on horseback, illustrating the landed upper classes, who by virtue of their wealth and place in society, have no need to work. They are in the background and overshadowed because they lost their importance in society, which is replaced by the working class.
No children under 10 or women to work in mines
Right to vote granted to town workers
It required national compulsory education for children aged five to 13 in England and Wales
The brain workers
The portraits of two prominent men of the day, Frederick Denison Maurice and Thomas Carlyle. Carlyle, the figure with the hat and stick, was the author of Past and Present, a book advocating social reform that Brown had read with interest. Maurice was a leading Christian Socialist and founder of the Working Men’s College. One of the posters visible on the far left side on the canvas is an advertisement for the Working Men’s College.
Biblical quote
The biblical quotes on the frame of the painting reinforces the idea that what will save England from its condition is hard work and duty.
a. No more than 48 hours a week of work for children aged 9-13 and no more than 72 hours for teenagers.b. It required national compulsory education for children aged five to 13 in England and Walesc. No more than 10 hours a day for all workersd. Establishment of workhousese. Trade Union legally recognised; right to strike confirmedf. Right to vote granted to town workers g. No children under 10 or women to work in minesh. Drawn up by the Chartist Movement to ask for the right to vote to the male working classi. Right to vote extended to country labourers and miners; universal male franchise j. Abolition of the rotten boroughs; the right to vote granted to any man owning a household worth at least £10
- First Reform Bill
- Factory Act
- New Poor Law
- People's Charter
- Ten Hours' Act
- Mines Act
- Second Reform Bill
- Education Act
- Trade Union Act
- Third Reform Bill
No more than 48 hours a week of work for children
Right to vote extended to country labourers and miners; universal male franchise
Drawn up by the Chartist Movement to ask for the right to vote to the male working class
The orphans
A group of ragged children in the foreground, representing the lowest of the lower classes. In the catalog of his 1865 one-man exhibition, Brown tells us that the children’s mother is dead, and that the oldest, a girl of ten, is in charge of the rest of the children. She wears a tattered dress and is holding an infant over one shoulder.
Abolition of the rotten boroughs; the right to vote granted to any man owning a household worth at least £10
The Victorian Age
Flavia Napoleone
Created on January 2, 2024
Start designing with a free template
Discover more than 1500 professional designs like these:
View
Timeline video
View
Images Timeline Mobile
View
Sport Vibrant Timeline
View
Decades Infographic
View
Comparative Timeline
View
Square Timeline Diagram
View
Timeline Diagram
Explore all templates
Transcript
The Victorian Age
(1837-1901)
The empire on which the sun never sets
1832-1884
1839-1842 1856-1860
Social reforms
First and second opium wars
1851
Domestic affairs
Foreign affairs
1845
Great Exhibition
Irish potato famine
1854-1856
1860s
Crimean War
New political parties
1857
1876
1897
1899-1902
Indian mutiny
Queen Victoria Empress of India
Victoria's diamond jubilee
The Boer War
Title here
Title here
Title here
Potato blight
Petition for "Home Rule" by Gladstone
Irish migration
Irish Republican movement
Indian Hall
Crystal Palace, Hyde Park
Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. “Forward, the Light Brigade! Charge for the guns!” he said. Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.[...] Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon in front of them Volleyed and thundered; Stormed at with shot and shell, Boldly they rode and well, Into the jaws of Death, Into the mouth of hell Rode the six hundred.
Florence Nightingale
- Alfred Tennyson
Queen Victoria and Mohammed Abdul Karim
Queen Victoria's golden jubilee (1887)
Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee (1897)
Take up the White Man's burdensend forth the best ye breed go bind your sons to exile to serve your captives' need; to wait in heavy harness, on fluttered folk and wild your new-caught, sullen peoples, half-devil and half-child.
- Rudyard Kipling
Victorian social reforms
FIRST REFORM BILL
TEN HOURS’ ACT
SECOND REFORM BILL
NEW POOR LAW
TRADE UNION ACT
1867
1871
1832
1834
1847
1870-80
1838
1862
1884
1833
FACTORY ACT + Abolition of slavery
EDUCATION ACT
PEOPLE’S CHARTER
MINES ACT
THIRD REFORM BILL
The middle-class woman
A well-dressed woman who offers a religious tract to one of the navvies. Seeing to the religious education of the lower classes was a type of “work” engaged in by many evangelical middle-class women.
Establishment of workhouses
No more than 10 hours a day for all workers
The navvies
The noble “working man”: they are neatly dressed and diligently going about their tasks. They are construction workers, excavating sewers in Hampstead, North London.
The poor
The agrictultural workers to have lost their livelihood. The ones who cannot work because they don't have a job or a place in society. Brown shows how they are impoverished by the modern city. This paradox between extreme wealth and poverty was known as "The condition of England"
The weed seller
A ragged and barefoot plant seller on the left side, a figure whom Brown described as a “ragged wretch who has never been taught to work."
The middle class woman
A lady carrying a parasol. It is a portrait of the artist’s Brown’s wife Emma. This represents the middle class woman who didn't need to work, but whose only role was to educate the children and the management of the household.
Trade Union legally recognised; right to strike confirmed
The dogs
This dog belongs to the aristocracy, it was a kind of breed that was used during hunting parties.
The mongrel dog with a frayed rope collar stands with the group of children and stares at his more pampered counterpart, a small dog with a red coat belonging to the middle class (it wears a red coat which matches the middle class woman's). The Jack Russell is the working dog. It was usually sent inside the excavation to scare rats away.
The upper class
Two riders on horseback, illustrating the landed upper classes, who by virtue of their wealth and place in society, have no need to work. They are in the background and overshadowed because they lost their importance in society, which is replaced by the working class.
No children under 10 or women to work in mines
Right to vote granted to town workers
It required national compulsory education for children aged five to 13 in England and Wales
The brain workers
The portraits of two prominent men of the day, Frederick Denison Maurice and Thomas Carlyle. Carlyle, the figure with the hat and stick, was the author of Past and Present, a book advocating social reform that Brown had read with interest. Maurice was a leading Christian Socialist and founder of the Working Men’s College. One of the posters visible on the far left side on the canvas is an advertisement for the Working Men’s College.
Biblical quote
The biblical quotes on the frame of the painting reinforces the idea that what will save England from its condition is hard work and duty.
a. No more than 48 hours a week of work for children aged 9-13 and no more than 72 hours for teenagers.b. It required national compulsory education for children aged five to 13 in England and Walesc. No more than 10 hours a day for all workersd. Establishment of workhousese. Trade Union legally recognised; right to strike confirmedf. Right to vote granted to town workers g. No children under 10 or women to work in minesh. Drawn up by the Chartist Movement to ask for the right to vote to the male working classi. Right to vote extended to country labourers and miners; universal male franchise j. Abolition of the rotten boroughs; the right to vote granted to any man owning a household worth at least £10
No more than 48 hours a week of work for children
Right to vote extended to country labourers and miners; universal male franchise
Drawn up by the Chartist Movement to ask for the right to vote to the male working class
The orphans
A group of ragged children in the foreground, representing the lowest of the lower classes. In the catalog of his 1865 one-man exhibition, Brown tells us that the children’s mother is dead, and that the oldest, a girl of ten, is in charge of the rest of the children. She wears a tattered dress and is holding an infant over one shoulder.
Abolition of the rotten boroughs; the right to vote granted to any man owning a household worth at least £10