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The Great Exhibition

Aims

  • To contrast the popular present-day image of Victorian Britain as a place of 'dark satanic mills' with the optimism and enthusiasm felt by much of society at the time.
  • To give an insight into how the newspapers reflected the social divisions and prejudices of the time.