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The victorian era
- When Victoria rises on the throne in 1837, an economic recession puts millions of miners and workers in the unemployment, especially as a new legislation forces the most deprived to join asylums, qualified of " Bastille of the poors ".
- In this period of industrial revolution, the number of union members rose quckly.
- The anger of the workers, and the masses begin to subscribe to a labor union, the Chartism.
- This movement is a rather heterogeneous gathering, composed by intellectuals, reformers, traditional radicals as well as semi-skilled workers and of unemployed persons.
- The Chartism is sometimes bound to csome moral groups (advocating for example the abstinence concerning any alcoholic drink, or defenders of the class struggle).
- In 1839, an convention in London gathered fifty four delegates of Chartist groupsis from all the kingdom.
- A petition drafted by themselves was put down to the House of Commons.
- She asks for the acceptance of the « Charter of the People », threatening to start a vast strike action of all the workers.
- The petition was finally rejected, however, the strike does not took place, because the movement was too much divided, concerning the ways to choose in order to obtain results.
- The movement disintegrates itself gradually from the summer 1839 and disappeared definitively in 1853 thanks to the improvement of the labor condition and the lack of unity of the movement.
- Religion As you know probably, the religion of the kingdom is the Anglicanism since 1530, which the guarantor for is the queen.
- However, many rival churches and sects to the Anglican Church develop themselves during the victorian period.
- « Nonconformist » or « dissidenters » was a term used in England and Wales after the Act of Uniformity 1662 to refer to a Protestant Christian who did not "conform" to the governance and usages of the established Church of England.
- We can think of congregationnists, Baptists, Presbyterians, unitarians and the Methodists, the most influential of this period.
- All these churches were called In 1851, about 43 % of the population is nonconformist.
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