when was the edwardian era Archives - TravelsFinders.Com ® http://travelsfinders.com/tag/when-was-the-edwardian-era Tue, 11 Sep 2018 14:13:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 THE VICTORIAN ERA OF BRITAIN http://travelsfinders.com/the-victorian-era-of-britain.html http://travelsfinders.com/the-victorian-era-of-britain.html#respond Sat, 26 Nov 2016 05:42:00 +0000 http://travelsfinders.com/?p=225270 THE VICTORIAN ERA OF BRITAIN The long and stable rule of Queen Victoria (1837-1901) set the tone for foreign and domestic politics and even stylistic mores. A series of Factory and Reform Acts throughout the century limited child labor, capped the average workday, and made sweeping changes in voting rights. By 1906, trade unions found a political voice in the Labour Party. Yet pressures to alter the position of other marginalized groups proved ineffectual, as the rich and bohemian embraced fin-de-siecle decadence; women, for instance, would have to wait for the vote until after the trauma of World War I.

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