Victorian England in the making: how did technology create a new society – a lecture by Ms. Ewa Wohner
On the 16th October students from IB1 and some from pre-IB attended a lecture titled "Victorian England in the making: how did technology create a new society" and delivered by one of our English teachers - Ms. Ewa Wohner. The original presentation consisted of 64 slides – regretfully, we did not manage to listen to the whole of it due to lack of time. The lecture was based mostly on a book – The Victorians by Jeremy Paxman.
Victorian contrasts
First, we heard about industrialism and the industrial revolution as well as learned how it was depicted in books, such as The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot (1860), and paintings (e.g. Manchester from Cliff, Higher Broughton by William Wyld (1852)).
While some artists tried to show Victorian England as a cheerfull, bright place, t...