Title: Life in the 18th Century
Headings: EVERYDAY LIFE IN THE 18th CENTURY
EVERYDAY LIFE IN THE 18th CENTURY
Society in 18th Century Britain
Population in 18th Century Britain
Towns in 18th Century England
Agriculture in 18th Century England
Food in the 18th Century
Houses in the 18th Century
Clothes in the 1700s
Leisure in the 18th Century
Education in the 18th Century
Transport in the 18th Century
Medicine in the 18th Century
Art and Science in the 18th Century
Technology in the 18th Century
Religion in the 18th Century

Content: However other middle class people such as merchants and professional men became richer and more numerous, especially in the towns. Below them were the great mass of the population, craftsmen and laborers. In the 18th century probably half the population lived as subsistence or bare survival level. In the early 18th century England suffered from gin drinking. It was cheap and it was sold everywhere as you did not need a license to sell it. Many people ruined their health by drinking gin. Sadly for many poor people drinking gin was their only comfort. The situation improved after 1751 when a tax was imposed on gin. At the end of the 1700s a group of Evangelical Christians called the Clapham Sect were formed. They campaigned for an end to slavery and cruel sports.