does anyone know any social changes between 1750 and 1900..its for my history essay…x?
Depends where you were at the time – France saw a few changes and got rid of their monarchy in spectacular style. They then went on a spectacular Imperial adventure under Napolean Bonaparte which ended in an equally spectacular defeat at Waterloo. This affected the lives of many Europeans with protracted and rather pointless warfare. After Bony’s defeat the Brits had rather a jolly time of it – expanding their empire until it covered a quarter of the globe – and delighted in their monarch the indefatigable Queen Victoria. Her reign saw the formation of a wide range of social reforms – education, sanitation and public health measures (eg the work of Bazalgete in London) as well as reforms to control working practices in the factories which were the main sources of employment – the fundamental change from an agricultural (and rural) existence to an industrialized (and urban) society.
