Child labor (The Victorian era) KATIA

It started with the use of steam-powered machines, which led to a massive increase in the number of factories who hired because there were cheaper and smaller, they could easily crawl under the machines and their fingers were use to perform precision tasks. Children were between 7 and 13 years old. Most of the children…

The East India Trading Company

The EITC was an association of merchants formed by british people wanting to establish and secure trading routes in India and the rest of Asia since 1599. It started as a monopolistic trading body, but it was not just a corporation like the ones we know today, because it had full military and even some…

Georges IV (Regency Era)

Famous for his dissolute lifestyle and his Royal Pavilion in Brighton, George became prince regent in 1811 and king in 1820. George was born on 17 August 1762, the eldest son of George III and Queen Charlotte. The Hanoverian kings were notorious for having bad relations with their heirs, and George III and his son…

The Great Exhibition of 1851

It is said that Prince Albert, Queen Victoria’s husband, was the dreamer who started the idea of The Great Exhibition of 1851, an unseen exhibition of more than 100 000 objects, all by over 15 000 contributors. The sight was displayed along 10 000 miles, half of which, was occupied by British exhibitions. The objects…