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  • Victorian Britain Crime and Punishment

    Crime and punishment

    Language:English Curriculum:UK Level: Ages 11 to 14 Subject:History

    Using primary source material, this activity aims to give students a real insight into the attitudes that formed ...

  • Victorian Britain Exhibiting Victorian Britain

    Exhibiting Victorian Britain

    Language:English Curriculum:UK Levels: Ages 11 to 14, Ages 14 to 16, Ages 7 to 11 Subject:History

    A great deal of what we think we know about the past comes from the exhibitions and museums dedicated to telling ...

  • Victorian Britain Health and Hygiene

    Health and hygiene

    Language:English Curriculum:UK Level: Ages 11 to 14 Subject:History

    Through the use of primary source material, this activity explores 19th century ideas about the cause of ...

  • Victorian Britain Industrialisation and life

    Industrialisation and life

    Language:English Curriculum:UK Level: Ages 16 to 18 Subject:History

    Industrialisation touched the very heart of life in the 19th century and had a huge influence upon every aspect ...

  • Victorian Britain Opposition to Poor Law Reform

    Opposition to Poor Law Reform

    Language:English Curriculum:UK Level: Ages 16 to 18 Subject:History

    This activity is designed to develop students’ understanding of the workhouse system, pressure for reform and ...

  • Victorian Britain Life in Victorian Britain

    Life in Victorian Britain

    Language:English Curriculum:UK Level: Ages 7 to 11 Subject:History

    According to Charles Booth’s poverty map of London however, well over a third of Londoners - and in reality a ...

  • Victorian Britain Leisure

    Leisure

    Language:English Curriculum:UK Level: Ages 7 to 11 Subject:History

    This activity uses primary source material to examine the relationship between the birth of rail travel and the ...

  • Dickens’s A Christmas Carol: Poverty, Money and Miserliness

    Dickens’s A Christmas Carol: Poverty, Money and Mi...

    Language:English Curriculum:UK Levels: Ages 14 to 16, Ages 16 to 18 Subject:English Literature

    The influence of economic and political crises on Dickens's A Christmas Carol.

  • Dickens’s Hard Times: Industrialisation

    Dickens’s Hard Times: Industrialisation

    Language:English Curriculum:UK Levels: Ages 14 to 16, Ages 16 to 18 Subject:English Literature

    Dickens's critique of industrialisation in the novel Hard Times.

  • Victorian Britain Poverty and the workhouse

    Poverty and the workhouse

    Language:English Curriculum:UK Level: Ages 11 to 14 Subject:History

    The Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 provided - for all poor - relief to be delivered by the workhouse system. ...

  • Victorian Britain Poverty

    Poverty

    Language:English Curriculum:UK Level: Ages 11 to 14 Subject:History

    This activity seeks to explore the concept of poverty in both Victorian Britain and the present. Through the ...