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Masterpiece Theatre | Oliver Twist | Down and Out in Victorian London Down and Out in Victorian London How much is conveyed in those two short words -- "The Parish!" And with how many tales of distress and misery, of broken fortune and ruined hopes, too often of unrelieved wretchedness and successful knavery are they associated! -- from Sketches by Boz So Charles Dickens described the Victorian parish, the British local government unit responsible for administering to the neighborhood's poor. Victorian Morals and the Poor The Industrial Age and the financial opportunities surrounding it led to a rapidly growing middle class in early 19th-century Britain. Subsequently, welfare in Dickens's time was based on deterrence rather than support. The workhouse was administered by unpaid bureaucrats, headed by the Beadle, an elected official. The Poor Laws Parishes were first instituted with the Elizabethan Poor Law of 1601, which organized tax-collected assistance. The 1782 Gilbert's Act changed some features for the better. Share your views at The Forum.

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the Cook's Guide and Housekeeper's & Butler's Assistant Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham The Victorian Web: An Overview David Perdue's Charles Dickens Page - Great Expectations Dickens wrote to his friend and advisor, John Forster, telling his plan for Great Expectations: "The book will be written in the first person throughout, and during these first three weekly numbers you will find the hero to be a boy-child, like David. Then he will be an apprentice. You will not have to complain of the want of humour as in the Tale of Two Cities. I have made the opening, I hope, in its general effect exceedingly droll. I have put a child and a good-natured foolish man, in relations that seem to me very funny. Dickens modeled Miss Havisham's Satis House on Restoration House in Rochester. Miss Havisham has Pip and Estella play Beggar My Neighbor to entertain her. "He calls the knaves, Jacks, this boy!" Rules of the Game Dickens used the forge at Chalk Village as the model for Joe Gargary's forge in Great Expectations. The ending of Great Expectations that Victorians read is not the original ending that Dickens wrote for the novel. Dec 1860 - Aug 1861 Dickens' age: 48-49

Museological Complex of the Museum of Civilization It consists of a virtual exhibit of five historic periods from 1870 to today. A blog for teachers and their students introduces the concepts of science journalism. Discover the history of this fascinating place and observe vestiges of the past through five 360 degree panoramas. At the controls of your flying camera, free three museums that have lost their access code. Although little known until today, the epic tale of the first French North American colony has been gradually revealed in five years of archaeological work on the Cap-Rouge. An artistic marvel to explore, as works of the 15th and 16th European art schools are juxtaposed with those of such renowned Québec artists as Joseph Légaré, Marc-Aurèle de Foy Suzor-Coté, and Jean Paul Lemieux. Bring the city’s founder back to life, along with his dreams, plans, partners, enemies, and the lands he explored 400 years ago. Once Upon a Time... Brave a mysterious forest, slip down secret passageways, or transform into a knight or a fairy.

The Blog of Death Google Streetmap of History By Daily Mail Reporter Updated: 07:19 GMT, 7 November 2011 A website has taken the notion of the 'Now and Then' photo to another level with their 'Google Streetmap of history' which allows people to see what a British street looked like 10, 20 or even 100 years ago. Like a photographic trip down memory lane, the phone app allows users to 'pin' photos to places on the map meaning you can see how the world has changed since the photo was taken, and read the stories behind the area. A vibrant Cambridge Market in the 1900's and today with several marquees in place It means people can see how the likes of London's Oxford Street and Wembley stadium, Cambridge city centre, or even Brighton pier, have developed over the past 170 years - just as it would appear on Google Streetmap. Historypin was founded by Oxford graduate and former teacher Nick Stanhope, CEO of London-based 'We Are What We Do', a non-profit company created in 2010. 'Everyone has history to share.

Victorians The Victorian period in Britain was one of huge industrial and technological change, shocking divisions between rich and poor, sensational crimes, spectacular entertainments for the masses, and grand attempts to combat squalor and disease. Discover Victorian life through the posters, pamphlets, diaries, newspapers, political reports and illustrations that the 19th century left behind... Written by Liza Picard The Working Classes and The Poor Street sellers, omnibus drivers, mudlarks, the workhouse and prostitution, the poor were forced to survive in any way that they could... The Middle Class Bank clerks, housewives shopping, magazine readers and holiday makers: all members of the Victorian middle class... Popular Culture No matter how poor people were, they could usually raise a penny or so for the music hall, circus or magic show... Transport and Communications Crime The police force was still in its early years and executions were a public source of entertainment. The Great Exhibition Health

The Joys of Teaching Literature » arxiu de blog » GREAT EXPECTATIONS ABOUT GREAT EXPECTATIONS A bright girl student pours down onto a long, singular email message the many reasons why she’s disappointed with Dickens: she “cannot see the literature” in Great Expectations, she dislikes Dickens’s too obvious moralising, and, generally, she finds him unable to impress her with a deep vision of what being human is about. He ‘doesn’t stir her soul’ (as Emily Brontë did). We meet for coffee, together with another student –a boy– who does enjoy reading Dickens. (Um, precious meetings like this are indeed one of the joys of teaching Literature!). Here is what happens: we badger her but sound less and less convincing as the conversation goes on. For other students in class, the feeling is just the opposite: they love Dickens and can’t stomach Wuthering Heights’s claustrophobic, mad Romanticism. All the battles about the literary canon seem to forget what great debunkers of reputations students are.

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