We’ve started a series of lessons on the Victorians. We’ll look at lots of different aspects of Victorian England and, by the end, aim to form an opinion on whether we should think of the Victorian era as a golden age for Britain or a dark age.
We started by looking at what seems to be a historical mystery:
Why did so many people move from the countryside to cities when there was so much poverty, pollution and squalor in these cities and life expectancy was lower?
Answer below.
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