What was daily life like in 1818?

Answer 1

Not much fun for most, with the industrial revolution plunging ahead, but working conditions pretty miserable, and often unhealthy.

Later, people would look back on this period with nostalgia - it was just before the railways, still a horse-drawn age with many fine crafts still performed by hand.

The English Public Schools were growing fast, training the characters of middle-class boys to run the Empire.

A good time to be in publishing or journalism, with millions learning to read and write, and keen to read anything they could lay their hands on.

At this time, most people would not have bet tuppence on the future of the monarchy. The Reform Act, with a much-extended voting franchise, was on its way.

Answer 2

it was bare peak init.