British+History

Writer: Hanne Herheim
 * A boy or a girl?**
 * Henrik and his second wife Anne Boleyn are expecting a baby any minute now. She has been pregnant for almost nine months, and the big question everyone asks is: will it become a boy or a girl?**

As we all know, Henrik was far from happy when he got a girl with his first wife Katarina of Aragon. The well known baby Mary, is now three years old and chatty little girl. As a result of beeing very disipointet by this ‘’wrong- sex- situation’’, he looked for a new wife. A wife that hopefylly could bring him the ‘’etterlengtede’’ boy. He found Mary, and he is now shore that she can give him a king. Someone claims Henrik would go insane if he gets a girl, and that he will do something drastic to his wife. According to some sources he would go as far as killing her. When Henrik was confronted with the question he just laughed, and asked what clown who could have said something that stupid. The last time we saw Henrik and his wife was in a ‘slottsparken’ on a picnic. They looked as happy as only a new -married couple could be. If it’s just a facade or not, is questionable. She has a lot of pressure lying on her shoulders, that’s for shore. Englands prospective throne, and royal blood are all in her hands. It’s not an emergency if she doesn’t get the ‘’right’’ sex, though. Henrik can always marry more wives, and get more children, hopefully a healthy king. But we all hope that Mary getting a boy, and stays with Henrik in the future.


 * The Victorian era**;

**B****ad working conditions at the factories!**

 * //The textile-factory Big MAMA in London has lately had a huge increase of human deaths, as a result of hard pressure and conditions at work. The numbers from this month are as much as 50 cases of deaths!//**

__ Writer; Hanne Herheim __ In the recent past the people at the Big MAMA- factory have been dropping like flies. Every morning, crowds of people are walking from their ‘’back to backs’’ houses to their work. At work they meet huge steam-machines; machines they know have killed many friends days before. With fear of being the next victim, they start with their work, hoping they’ll survive one more day. ‘’ Many of the people working here, don’t have any other choices if they don’t want to starve to death’’, said Anna Hull, an employee at the factory. She could tell us that she had seen one of her children getting killed in one of the machines. Her child had fallen asleep during steaming and was ‘’taken’’ by the machine. When Anna saw it, it was too late. The machines are like some loose cannons, you never know what they’re up to. Some days they are nice, other days they scalp people, ripping their limps of, or in the worst case kill them, Anna told.
 * Dropping like flies**

People are tired and running out of steam. The industrial revolution has set its mark, the machines are here to stay. It’s a risk having tired people at work, because it’s so unpredictable. Something can happen out of the blue. But as Anna said, they have no other choice if they want to have food on the table. It’s not only the workers at the Big MAMA-factory who have experienced the bad side of the revolution. People are living crowded, and housing condition like this, in addition to running cloak in the streets, is perfect breeding grounds for diseases. The government, is now discussing the working conditions, whether people have to have long working days or not. We are now waiting for the government to decide what they will do, and what the result is to be, time will show. .
 * The industrial revolution**