Victorian Newspapers – An absolute Slice for Story

The Battle of Trafalgar, the very first FA Cup Final, Jack the Ripper, the construction of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, Queen Victoria’s 63-year reign… You can now read about the news headlines and events of the Victorian era, on a budget, with vintage newspapers!

Lowly-priced yet highly valuable, Victorian newspapers – otherwise known as antique newspapers or just vintage newspapers – offer anyone an unusual opportunity to get a bit of history, looking back at how our ancestors lived. You can find these special papers online from around £4.99.

No TV, no technology, no central heating, no cars (until the previous couple of years of Victoria’s reign). No air travel – if you don’t went up in a balloon! Child-bearing might be treacherous, and many women died in childbirth. Countless babies also died from childhood diseases.

The 19th century was a time you could be hanged for over 200 offences. Worse still, the execution was performed before large crowds who have been at the least allowed to be defer by the spectacle, but who, most likely, went for the morbid thrill and the carnival atmosphere that typically surrounded such events. pool result It wasn’t until 1868 this terrible death sentence was banned from being performed publically.

Newspapers represent our culture in a silly way. Victorian newspaper articles expose how 19th century Britain was transformed by the industrial revolution. A prosperous Britain gained a respected world position. Industries boomed and the British Empire gained power over one quarter of the world’s population.

Victorian times newspapers cover a period when Britain went from becoming an undeveloped society to a global industrial and military superpower. Read about the industrial revolution, as reported during the time, where there is an unprecedented demand for girls and child labour.

When you yourself have children, imagine living in a day and age where they certainly were designed to benefit provided that 12 hours, every day and every day, in a factory or down the mines? It had been a time when streets were unpaved and unlit, with no drains. People threw dirty water to the streets until stagnant pools formed.

Toilets were usually cesspits, of hardly ever emptied and sometimes overflowed. Urine often seeped through the bottom into wells that people drew drinking water. And if you’re lucky enough to have a toilet, you’d probably have to share it between several houses, and find yourself standing in an extended queue on a Sunday morning.

Given these filthy conditions, it’s no real surprise there were outbreaks of cholera in numerous towns. In cities like Liverpool, families often lived in cellars, of damp and poorly ventilated, not to mention crowded. Poorer people slept on straw since they couldn’t afford beds.

Victorian era newspapers reveal how folks in the 19th century viewed everyday events and supply a breathtaking insight into life since it used to be. From the Battle of Waterloo, to the Great Exhibition of 1851, to the opening of the Suez Canal, old newspapers amply represent the iconic historical events of a momentous bygone age. So go on; get stuck in!