Quotations - PowerPoint-Präsentation
Agriculture, 1750 - 1870
Britain was still a country of villages and farms in 1750 ...
Enclosures made more money for landlords and tenants ...
The years after 1750 were a time of high profits for farmers and good rents for landlords ...
Trade and Empire in the Eighteenth Century
,,Nicht von dem Wohlwollen des Fleischers, Brauers oder Bäckers erwarten wir unsere Mahlzeit, sondern von ihrer Bedachtnahme auf ihr eigenes Interesse ..."
Adam Smith - PowerPoint-Präsentation
Problems with trade: mercantilism, free trade and protection
Britain's large empire helped her to become wealthier through trade ...
Mercantilism, free trade and protection - PowerPoint-Präsentation
By 1750 Britain was the world´s leading trading nation ...
India in the eighteenth century
India's ruler was the Mughal emperor in Delhi ...
The loss of the American colonies
Most of the east coast of North America was British in 1750 ...
James Cook was the most famous sea captain of the 18th century ...
The old sailor blew smoke into the warm air ...
The Industrial Revolution - Iron, Steam and Coal
The Industrial Revolution: Iron, Steam and Coal - PowerPoint-Präsentation
Between 1750 and 1900 Britain went through a huge change in how and where men and women worked and lived ...
Wer um die Mitte des 18. Jahrhunderts etwas auf sich hielt im alten Europa, ließ sich von der dreißigstündigen Fahrt über den Kanal nicht abschrecken und nahm eine Bildungssreise nach England in sein Programm ...
Iron ore has to be heated (or smelted) to extract the iron ...
The most important of the iron machines was the steam engine ...
Ironworks and steam engines needed coal ...
Changes in power - PowerPoint-Präsentation
The Industrial Revolution - Textiles
The Industrial Revolution: Textiles - PowerPoint-Präsentation
Since the Middle Ages, making woollen cloth had been England´s main industry ...
Cotton mills spread through Lancashire in the first years of the nineteenth century ...
Mill owners said that they had to keep their prices down ...
In the middle of the 18th century the population in Britain started to grow very quickly, so far more people needed food, clothes and houses ...
The division of workers in cotton mills in 1835 - PowerPoint-Präsentation
Canals and roads
As industries grew, more heavy loads of iron and coal had to be moved from place to place ...
After 1770, canals began to snake their way through much of England ...
A relaxing way to see the countryside is by water ...
Canals were built partly because the roads were so bad ...
Railways and Ships
Before the year 1700, trucks ran on wooden rails in the Cornish tin mines ...
After 1830, there was a rush to build railways ...
The first boats with engines were paddle-steamers ...
Britain and the French Revolution
In the eighteenth century, the king of France was the real ruler of his country ...
In 1793, France was at war with most of the countries of western Europe ...
Between 1805 and 1807, Napoleon´s armies again crushed the great powers - Austria, Prussia, and Russia ...
The Reform of Parliament
In the eighteenth century, Britain was ruled by its great landowners ...
The radicals were just a small group ...
Not everyone was happy with the Reform Act ...
The Move to the Towns
The first census (official count of people) in Britain took place in 1801 ...
With the spread of industry, Britain's towns and cities got bigger ...
Before 1830, the government did not think that the state of the towns was its business ...
Making Ends Meet
The standard of living - the evidence
The 'standard of living' of a family depended on how much money came in and how high the prices were ...
Working people's standard of living rose between 1750 and 1793 ...
Before 1900 there were no old-age pensions or free health service in Britain ...
Free Trade
All governments need to collect taxes ...
By 1860 there were hardly any tariffs left, and free trade was almost complete ...
It was Prince Albert's idea to hold a festival of arts and science in London, and he played an important part in the planning ...
The End of British Prosperity?
A quarter of all British men were farm workers in 1850 ...
Low food prices were good news for most workers ...
Why did Britain lose her lead?
Britain had been the world's leader in industry and trade ...
Working Class Movements
The British working class did not care about revolutions ...
The first trade unions were set up between 1700 and 1750 ...
The unions of the 1840s were small, and most of them did not last long ...
The British Empire in the Nineteenth Century
India in the nineteenth century
The East India Company was a company with an empire ...
Britain did not treat her white subjects overseas in the same way as her black and Asian ones ...
The trade in black slaves made some English merchants rich in the eighteenth century ...
During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Britain itself was peaceful ...
Empire and industry - PowerPoint-Präsentation
Education
Public schools and private schools
Most of the great 'public' schools of England took boarders and charged fees ...
The biggest problem about schooling for the poor was money - the cost of teachers, books, etc ...
An act passed in 1870 started a state system of schooling in England and Wales ...
Arts and Leisure
Only the rich can afford to hire architects ...
William Blake: The Ancient of Days, 1794 - PowerPoint-Präsentation
William Turner: Chichester Canal, 1828 - PowerPoint-Präsentation
In clothes, also, fashions were set by the rich ...
William Wordsworth: Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802
Earth has not anything to show more fair: ...
William Wordsworth: I wandered lonely as a cloud (1807)
I wandered lonely as a cloud that floats on high o'er vales and hills ...
Jane Austen spent her short life in Hampshire, near the south coast of England ...
Jane Austen: Emma (1815) - Grade 1
Emma Woodhouse was pretty, clever and rich ...
Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence ...
Jane Austen: Emma: Introduction
Pretty, rich young Emma Woodhouse is very pleased with herself when her closest friend, Miss Taylor, marries Mr Weston ...
Charles Dickens was probably the most popular novelist in the English language in the nineteenth century ...
Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist (1838) - Grade 2
One cold day, a young woman walked into a small country town ...
Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist: Introduction
Poor Oliver! He has no mother or father. He has no good friends ...
Charles Dickens: Ein Weihnachtslied in Prosa (1843)
Marley war tot; damit wollen wir anfangen. Darüber gibt's nicht den leisesten Zweifel ...
Charles Dickens: Hard Times (1854)
"Now, what I want is, Facts ..."
Charles Dickens - PowerPoint-Präsentation
Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë
The Brontë sisters were exceptional writers of poetry as well as fiction ...
Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights (1847) - Grade 5
Before I came to live here at Thrushcross Grange, I, Ellen Dean, was nearly always at Wuthering Heights ...
Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights (1847)
1801. - I have just returned from a visit to my landlord - the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with ...
Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights: Introduction
Late one evening, Mr Earnshaw returns to his moorland home, Wuthering Heights ...
Emily Brontë: Die Sturmhöhe (1847)
1801. Ich bin gerade von einem Besuch bei meinem Gutsherrn zurückgekehrt - diesem einsamen Nachbarn, der mir zu schaffen machen wird ...
Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre (1847) - Grade 1
My name is Jane Eyre. When I was very small, my father and mother died, and I was alone ...
Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre: Introduction
Jane Eyre does not have an easy life. Her mother and father die when she is just a small child ...
William Gilbert: The Sacristan of St Botolph
Master Walter De Courcey, although an indefatigable man of business, was extremely punctual in his religious observances ...
Lewis Carroll: Alice in Wonderland (1865)
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do ...
Robert Louis Stevenson: Treasure Island (1883) - Grade 1
My name is Jim Hawkins. When I was a boy, I lived with my mother and father in an inn called the Admiral Benbow ...
Robert Louis Stevenson: Treasure Island (1885): Introduction
Jim Hawkins lives at an inn with his mother and father ...
Thomas Hardy was a poet and a novelist. He wrote about the English countryside ...
Thomas Hardy: A Mere Interlude (1885)
The traveller in school-books, who vouched in driest tones for the fidelity to fact of the following narrative ...
Oscar Wilde: The Canterville Ghost (1887) - Stage 2
When Hiram B. Otis, the American businessman, bought the house called Canterville Chase ...
Oscar Wilde: The Canterville Ghost (1887)
When Mr. Hiram B. Otis, the American Minister, bought Canterville Chase, every one told him he was doing a very foolish thing, as there was no doubt at all that the place was haunted ...
Oscar Wilde: The Canterville Ghost: Summary 1
There has been a ghost in the house for three hundred years, and Lord Canterville's family have had enough of it ...
Oscar Wilde: The Canterville Ghost: Summary 2
Most grand old houses have a family ghost of some kind ...
Rudyard Kipling: The Jungle Book (1894) - Grade 2
One warm evening Father Wolf woke from his day's rest. Mother Wolf lay beside her four babies ...
Rudyard Kipling: The Jungle Book - Introduction
"I have never seen a man's cub," said Mother Wolf. "Bring him here ...
Rudyard Kipling: Just So Stories - Grade 1
Long, long ago, my dear, when the world was young, there was a very big and very hungry whale ...
Rudyard Kipling: Just So Stories: Introduction
At the beginning of time, the animals were quite different from the ones we see today ...
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Silver Blaze (1894)
"I´m afraid, Watson, that I shall have to go," said Holmes, as we sat down together to our breakfast one morning ...
To the upper classes, 'sport' meant killing birds and animals - shooting and fox-hunting ...
Department stores are found in all big cities ...
Religion
In 1750, the great majority of people in Britain were Christians ...
John Wesley was a Church of England parson and a great preacher ...
Between 1750 and 1900, trade and industry made Britain rich and strong ...
Many people came to the new cities for work ...
The National Trust is a charity set up in 1895 to preserve places of historic interest and natural beauty in Britain ...