History of the 1800's

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The first time photographic technology was invented was in the 1830s/40s. This technology revolutionised our culture and how we communicate to this day.

It would have been an amazing time to live in, 'real' life could be captured and sent all around the world.

Portraits of the royals and celebrities where accurate for the public to gaze upon, and allowed the public to think they where seeing these people in the flesh.

The British inventor Fox Talbot started the process without a camera, this was by placing objects onto paper with light sensitive silver chloride, which was then exposed to sunlight.

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   Available from: http://foxtalbot.dmu.ac.uk/talbot/t_or_ft.html

Oliver Twist was Charles Dickens second novel published in 1837, and has become one of the best and most loved novels in the history of literature. Dickens wanted to raise awareness to his readers that the slums he talks about are there and are in desperate need of improvement in living conditions. 

http://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/novels/complete-works/ 

http://www.bl.uk/learning/timeline/item107687.html

The rails roads where the arteries of England and joined the nation and its people.

 

Between the times of 1830 & 1870 the railway was built all around the British Isles. In 1852 there was over 7000 miles of rail track in England & in Scotland; meaning that everyone could rely on rail communication, it was a massive deal to the people of the time as it linked communities, people, the industrial revolution and economic development. It was a way to transport big machinery, good for shops.

   

http://www.bl.uk/learning/timeline/item106197.html
http://www.nrm.org.uk/RailwayStories/railwayarticles/navvies.aspx

Around the 16th century, freak shows became popular pastimes for british people.  The people with deformities where treated as objects of interest and entertainment, and crowds came to see them "exhibited". Its awful but that is still done today, people who have something 'abnormal' are put in the Guinness Book of records and awarded!

http://www.bl.uk/learning/timeline/item106349.html

P. T. Barnum was one in popularising this kind of 'entertainment'. The types of people he had in his shows where tribal people or to them the undiscovered races and lusus nature. Along with them there where people who where born with deformities, such a siamese twins, people covered in tattoos.

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ma02/freed/barnum/freaks.html