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The difference between private life and commerce was a fluid one distinguished by an informal demarcation of function. In the Victorian era, English family life increasingly became compartmentalised, the home a self-contained structure housing a nuclear family extended according to need and circumstance to include blood relations.
Hunger and poor diet was a common aspect of life across the UK in the Victorian period, especially in the 1840s, but the mass starvation seen in the Great Famine in Ireland was unique. [87] [85] Levels of poverty fell significantly during the 19th century from as much as two thirds of the population in 1800 to less than a third by 1901. However ...
The Victorian era was a time of unprecedented population growth in Britain. The population rose from 13.9 million in 1831 to 32.5 million in 1901. Two major contributory factors were fertility rates and mortality rates. Britain was the first country to undergo the demographic transition and the Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions.
What the Victorians Did for Us is a 2001 BBC documentary series that examines the impact of the Victorian era on modern society. It concentrates primarily on the scientific and social advances of the era, which bore the Industrial Revolution and set the standards for polite society today.
Victorian Studies. 9 (4): 353–374. JSTOR 3825816. Merriman, J (2004). A History of Modern Europe; From the French Revolution to the Present New York, London: W.W. Norton & Company. Perkin, Harold James (1969). The Origins of Modern English Society: 1780-1880. Routledge. ISBN 0-7100-4567-0. Searle, G. R. Morality and the Market in Victorian ...
Inside the Victorian Home: A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian England (2004). Gleadle, Kathryn. British women in the nineteenth century (Bloomsbury, 2017) online. Gleadle, Kathryn. and Sarah Richardson (eds.). Women in British Politics, 1760-1860: The Power of the Petticoat (Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2000) Gleadle, Kathryn.
The Victorian Church. Part Two: 1860-1901 (1972) online; Clark, G. Kitson. The making of Victorian England (1962) Corey, Melinda, and George Ochoa, eds. The encyclopedia of the Victorian world: a reader's companion to the people, places, events, and everyday life of the Victorian era (Henry Holt, 1996) online; Crick, Julia; Elisabeth van Houts ...
As the capital of a massive empire, London became a draw for immigrants from the colonies and poorer parts of Europe. A large Irish population settled in the city during the Victorian era, with many of the newcomers refugees from the Great Famine (1845–1849). At one point, Irish immigrants made up about 20% of London's population.