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History at key stages 1 and 2    (Year 5/6)

Unit 11: What was it like for children living in Victorian Britain?

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Resources

  • a portrait of Queen Victoria and her family
  • information on Victorian children at work, eg contemporary engravings, extracts from contemporary authors, factory and mine reports
  • information on Lord Shaftesbury and Dr Barnardo, eg textbooks, pack from Barnardo's on Victorian Britain
  • information on Victorian schools, eg extracts from stories, school logbooks, inspection reports
  • information on Victorian leisure, eg games, toys, posters, books, songbooks of children at work in factories and mines
  • contemporary novels, eg novels by Kingsley, Dickens
  • a class time line

Sections in this unit

This unit is divided into sections. Each section contains a sequence of activities with related objectives and outcomes. You can view this unit by moving through the sections or print/download the whole unit.
1. Who were the Victorians and when did they live?
2. What was life like for a poor child in the 1840s?
3. Who helped to improve the lives of Victorian children?
4. What was it like going to school at the end of the nineteenth century?
5. How did different Victorian children use their spare time?
6. How did life change for children living in Victorian Britain?