THE VICTORIAN TIMES

Volume 1, Issue 1
Editor: Caden Flitton
1830 - 1840
So Young, Yet England's Greatest Ruler Queen Victoria (1839)
She is only closing in on her 20th birthday,
and already Queen Victoria has led the great
British Empire to phenomenal advances in
technology and expansion since she became ruler
in June, 1837.
Thanks to our great ruler Queen Victoria,
expansion and production of the Great Western
Railway connecting London to Bristol has been
put into high gear and is nearing completion.
Also, the Great Western Steam ship has set sail
for transatlantic shipping. Over the course of
nearly two years, Queen Victoria has completely
renovated our empire into an industrial supermachine.

A Chief Engineer for the Great Western

Railway is Found! (1833)
Due to his contributions to the advancement of
technology, Islambard Kingdom Brunel has been
appointed as chief engineer of the Great Western
Railway project by King James IV as of 1833.
The Great Western Railway is set to connect
London to Bristol by railway. Brunel is fit to be
chief engineer of this project after studying at the
great Lycee Henri-Quatri and the University of
Caen. He was also born to the famous engineer
Sir Marc Islambard.

The first train to embark on the Great Western Railway

It's 1833 and the Factory Act Has Taken Action (1833)

The great year of 1833 has passed and with it is the

Factory Act. The Factory Act is a phenomenal step
towards ending child labor and "straightening up" our
amazing empire.
This act limits children ages 9-11 to working only 8
hours per day. Children under 9 years of age are no
longer permitted to work at all under this new act.
Previous acts have limited children to 12 hours a day,
however, these acts were only enforced in cotton mills.
Many Victorians feel as if this act is more of aburden
as opposed to a "help" to Victorian society. However,
prior to this act, less than 20 percent of Victorian
children were educated due to having to work all day.
This great Factory Act will reshape the empire of
Great Britain by allowing children more time in their
days for education and will be a tremendous help to our
youth.
The Time is Now to Stop Child Labor (1840)
As their elders have done, children in our empire
have been working up to 16 hours a day under miserable
conditions and it must stop. Starting in 1831, "Short
Time Committees" have been organizing in an effort to
end child labor. These committees have been an amazing
help to the constant fight against child labor. The
Factory Act in 1833 was passed and limited children
(ages 9-11) to working only 8 hours per day and any
children below the age of 9 to work at all. This act was a
large step in the right direction, however child labor
must stop completely.
In our society, some believe that child labor is useful
to the community in the sense that children are taught
life skills through work. However as of now, only 20%
of London's children are being educated because the
labor is taking the place of schooling. Child labor does
not help the community but harms it, which is why it
should be put to an end.

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