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Vic Context Flashcards

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1833

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  • Slavery Abolition Act 1833

- Eng lit est. in new KCL

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Establishment of Lit as discipline at KCL represents increasing democratisation within country but also…

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constitutes ironic juxtaposition: great English past to learn about includes England’s slave-trading/slave-owning past

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century opened with…

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memories of French Revolution 1789-99

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alarming possibilities of Revolution in England as…

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1811-1817 the Luddites smashed machinery in order to protect their jobs in textile and hosiery industries

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Napoleonic Wars briefly united British nation…

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1803-1815. Culminated in victory over Napoleon at Waterloo 1815

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Middle-class men and women demanding…

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right to vote in Britain. 1832 limited number of wealthier middle-class men enfranchised.

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Evolutionary theories culminate in publication…

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1859 of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection

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