1. Between 1800 and 1900 life in western countries changed more,and more quickly.The biggest change was from a world of villages and farms to one of cities and factories , where machines produced goods much faster than the old methods. This was a revolution as important as the French Revolution. the industrial revolution

2. the industrial revolution

3. Children in slums During the early part of the twentieth century, there were dramatic falls in the mortality rates in many cities in the West. The reasons for this improvement are of considerable relevance today because the conditions which prevailed at that time in cities such as New York are comparable to those prevailing in many slums of the Third World today. Some early studies linked the improvements in health, as measured by mortality rates, to a better level of nutrition.

4. Country children

5. Factories and Brick Works Children often worked long and gruelling hours in factories and had to carry out some jobs. In match factories children were employed to dip matches into a chemical called phosphorous. This phosphorous could cause their teeth to rot and some died from the effect of breathing it into their lungs.

6. factories and bricks

7. The status of Women in the Victorian Era is often seen as an illustration of the striking discrepancy between England's national power and wealth and what many, then and now, consider its appalling social conditions. During the Era symbolized by the reign of British monarch Queen Victoria, difficulties escalated for women because of the vision of the "ideal women" shared by most in the society. The legal rights of married women were similar to those of children. They could not vote, sue, or own property women in the victoria era

8. women in the victoria era

10. advance of transport

13. factories and slums

15. conmunication in the 19th centrury

16. the end By Silvia and Aitor