Nevertheless, the period saw an expansion in social legislation, including the introduction of old age pensions and various kinds of government insurance schemes.
I know this is a set homework for you but me giving you the answer wont help in the future. You need to try find information on the Internet, link it with other facts that you found out about England. The information wont be always be dot on from the 1912, so you need to find information and narrow it down. I know you might not think about the titanic sinking when you think about class system but you can get information from that. Did you see how the rich people had grand rooms, expensive food and so. But the lower class people had bunk beds and were locked on there floor when the boat went down. This shows that people did not care about other humans if they were not wealthy or some thing along that line. So just be sure to do that for that A in your GCSE.
Because, it was a very expensive task, and most did not have the money. Also, it was usually reserved for higher class nobels.
lower classes were given plain burials
The group that was excluded in Victorian society was the lower working class. They were very poor and many worked as domestic servants or at jobs that were considered unfit for the higher classes. The groups that were considered included or accepted were the nobility, also called the gentry, the middle class, and the upper working class. The upper working class were people who had good jobs that did not include physical labor.Ê
The Gentry Class of the Victorian Era was the upper class. The people in the gentry were usually part of the royal family, lords temporal, and the ecclesiastical (part of the church); the Queen was at the top. Most of the people in the House of Commons (the lower house of parliament) were of the genrty, but all of the people in the House of Lords (upper house of the parliament) were of the Gentry. They lived lives of ease and lavish activities like parties and dancing were usual pastimes the Gentry enjoyed.
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slave
Try "The Condition of the Working Class in England" by Friedrich Engels.
Yes there was a lower class it usually consisted of slaves, and other people like the slaves
Peasant, or pleb (informal and derogatory for the lower class) are two possibilities.
Try "The Condition of the Working Class in England" by Friedrich Engels.
Just like any other country, it depends on what class of society you are examining. In just about all societies, the lower class people tend toward less concern about manners. Just as in the United States, British upper class tends to be "proper", middle class tends to be polite, and lower class tends to be "rough".
The class of people that van Gogh painted in general were peasants or lower class people.
Plebeians - more to the lower class/lower middle class Equestrians - middle class only
very ragged and scaby looking
Victorian
upper class, middle class, and lower class