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How many people live in the UK?. Starter activity. What are the most important things the UK trades with other countries to make money?. Who is in charge of running the country?. How do people get around?.
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How many people live in the UK? Starter activity What are the most important things the UK trades with other countries to make money? Who is in charge of running the country? How do people get around? You are about to find out about life in eighteenth century Britain, on the eve of an event historians have called the ‘Industrial Revolution’. In order to understand what life was like then, it is a good idea to think about our lives today – where we live and what we do to earn a living. Discuss the above questions with your partner.
How ‘Great’ was Britain in 1750? Aims To find out about living and working conditions in eighteenth century Britain To compare life in the C18th with life today To write an ambassador’s report on C18th Britain in
Your task – copy the questions into your exercise book leaving 5 lines between each one. Answer the questions based on the reading task your teacher gives you. • How many people were there? • Who ruled the country? • How healthy were people? • How did people get around? • How did people make money? • How ‘Great’ was Britain?
How many people were there? How do historians know how many people lived in Britain in 1750?
Who ruled? • 1714-27 George I – German-speaker fabled for his lovers! • 1727-1760 George II – preferred Germany, last King to fight in battle • 1760-1820 George III – English speaker, occupied Buckingham Palace, farmer George Walpole
How healthy were people? • Medicine & hygiene very primitive • Killer diseases – pneumonia, bronchitis, diphtheria, tuberculosis, cholera & smallpox • Average life expectancy 30 yrs • 15 in every 100 children died before 1st birthday • 1 in 5 mothers died Bacteria
How did people get around? • ‘We set out at six in the morning and didn’t get out of the carriages (except when we overturned or got stuck in the mud) for 14 hours. We had nothing to eat and passed through some of the worst roads I ever saw in my life’ This is a description of a journey by Queen Anne in 1704 from Windsor to Petworth – a journey of 40 miles. What does it tell us about transport at the time?
How did people make money? • 8 out of 10 worked in countryside • Subsistence farming • Cottage industries - factories rarely employed more than 50 people • Handmade – buttons, needles, cloth, bricks, pottery, bread etc. • Developing towns – Liverpool, Birmingham, Glasgow Welsh spinsters How many objects do you have about you or can you see in the room that are handmade?
How ‘Great’ was Britain? • British empire growing – Canada, West Indies, Africa, India & America • Imported goods from plantations, e.g. cotton, tobacco & sugar • Exported – cloth, pottery, metal goods
Your task Pretend you are a foreign ambassador, sent on a trip to Britain by a foreign king. You must prepare a report on Britain for your king back home. Remember not to be too complimentary otherwise your king may get jealous!Include references to population, government, health, transport, industry and empire.
Your task An advertising company has asked you to make a 60 second commercial emphasising the positive aspects of life in Britain in 1750. Try to include references to all the following features: • Population • Government • Health • Transport • Industry • Empire
