Great Britain in Sherlock Holmes Times

  • Jan 1, 777

    The Agricultural Revolution

    The Agricultural Revolution
    Without the Agricultural Revolution, the growing population of England would have starved, and the Industrial Revolution would have been stifled.
  • Coke

    Coke
    Braham Darby smelted iron using coke (1709)
  • Pump Water

    Pump Water
    Thomas Newcomen built the first commercially successful steam engine to pump water out of mines.
  • Industrialisation.

    Industrialisation.
    There was significant industrialisation in Britain before 1780.
  • The rate of economic growth

    The rate of economic growth
    The rate of economic growth between 1780 and 1830 was much slower than previously thought.
  • Farm-workers

    Farm-workers
    It used to be thought that enclosure displaced farm-workers to the towns, but historians now doubt this.
  • The Parliamentary Enclosure movement

    The Parliamentary Enclosure movement
    The Parliamentary Enclosure movement was said to have destroyed the old three-field system, and created the modern 'patchwork' of enclosed fields.
  • The New Leicester Sheep

    The New Leicester Sheep
    Beetwen 1750 and 1830, Robert Bakewell used selective breeding to develop the New Leicester sheep.
  • Sheep shearings

    Sheep shearings
    Beetwen 1750 and 1830, coke of Holkham publicised the new ideas by inviting hundreds of people to his 'sheep shearings' ie agricultural shows
  • Machinery Meant

    Machinery Meant
    In the long term, however, increased use of machinery meant that fewer farm workers were needed. They left the land and went to the industrial towns of the north of England.
  • Telegraph

    Telegraph
    Samuel Morse invented the telegraph.
  • Steamship

    Steamship
    Isambard Kingdom Brunel built the Great Britain steamship (using screw propellers)
  • Economy Grew

    Economy Grew
    Some sectors of the economy grew, eg textiles, iron, coal, but the rest stayed stagnant, or grew very slowly.
  • The Machine Gun

    The Machine Gun
    Richard Gatling patented the machine gun.
  • Dynamite

    Dynamite
    Alfred Nobel invented dynamite.
  • Forster's act

    Forster's act
    Forster's Act set up state-funded board schools for primary education.
  • The Sign Of Four Miss Mary Morstan

    The Sign Of Four Miss Mary Morstan
    Captain Morstan disappeared
    Captain Morstan returned from India to England
    Captain Morstan sent a telegram to his daughter
    Major Sholto dead
    Mary Morstan( the daughter of Captain Mortan) received a box with a pearl.
  • The Sign of Four a Strange Paper

    The Sign of Four a Strange Paper
    Miss Mary Morstan went to the Lyceum theater with Holmes and Watson and there was a man waiting for they in a cab.
    Mary gives a map to Holmes that she found in his father desk ( it said THE SIGN OF FOUR ).
  • The Sing of Four Mr Thaddeus Sholto

    The Sing of Four Mr Thaddeus Sholto
    Holmes, Watson and Mary got into the house and met Thaddeus Sholto and tells they that Captain Morstan was dead.
    He tells they that before Sholto's dead ,he told his secret about the treasure.
    Thaddeus and his brother had divided the treasure with Mary.
  • School

    School
    The Education Act made school attendance compulsory for children up to the age of 10.
  • The Sign of Four: Pondicherry Lodge

    The Sign of Four: Pondicherry Lodge
    Bartholomew was found dead in his home, because a poison thorn, and the treasure was missing
  • The Sign of Four: An early arrest

    The Sign of Four: An early arrest
    Holmes thought that two people were the murdered, one of the two was with a wooden leg: Jonathan Small, but the police thought that was Thaddeus Sholto.
  • The Sign of Four: The Aurora

    The Sign of Four: The Aurora
    Holmes and Watson met Mordecai Smith and her hasband take the steam lunch with a person with a wooden leg
  • The Sign of Four The Baker Street Boys

    The Sign of Four The Baker Street Boys
    Watson called the baker street boys and told they to found a black launch called the aurora and said they that Mordecai Smith is the owner of the launch
  • The Ragged Schools

    The Ragged Schools
    In 1844, the Ragged Schools Union was set up to give schooling to very poor children
  • Motor Car

    Motor Car
    Karl Benz invented the motor car.
  • Coca Cola

    Coca Cola
    John Pemberton invented Coca Cola.
  • The Sign of Four The Old Sailor

    The Sign of Four The Old Sailor
    The Baker Street boys had found nothing so Holmes, Watson and Lestrade board a police launch.
  • The Sign of Four The Adventure on the River

    The Sign of Four The Adventure on the River
    The police launch followed the Aurora down the River, there were four people on the boat.
    Lestrade said said to the launch stop and shoot a gun.
    The police took a large indian chest from the Aurora.
  • The Sign of Four

    The Sign of Four
    Jonathan small tolds his histori about the woooden leg and said that the treasure was for her and other four people trom the Andaman Islands.
  • The Coal Industry

    The Coal Industry
    The coal industry employed a million men in 3,000 collieries.
  • Population

    Population
    A H John thought that growth had been stimulated by the Agricultural Revolution. This had increased the population and therefore domestic demand.
  • Industry

    Industry
    Joseph Inikori (1987) has focused on the profits made by the slave traders, which provided money for investment in British industry.
  • Investment in british Industry

    Investment in british Industry
    the African historian Joseph Inikori (1987) has focused on the profits made by the slave traders, which provided money for investment in British industry.