The Victorian age was only 150 years ago but things were very different in those times to how they are today. It was a time of great change and excitement across Britain but it was also a time of great contrast between rich people and poor people. Rich Victorians lived a life utterly unimaginable to poor Victorians and this difference was a source of inspiration to one of Britain’s finest ever authors – Charles Dickens.
During the next half term, Class 5 will be studying life in Victorian Britain during their history sessions as well as basing their literacy work around one of Dickens’ (and Britain’s) most famous books – Oliver Twist. During November, the class will be completing a mini-project based on life in Victorian Britain and Charles Dickens. As such, any additional research students can complete on these subjects will be fantastically helpful in ensuring a successful unit of work.
In particular, when researching try to focus:
1) the life of Charles Dickens (another helpful link and another and another);
2) the difference in lifestyles for rich people and poor people (another helpful link); and
3) what life was like in a workhouse.
As we will be studying the story of Oliver Twist, try to research this in depth (this links to a very detailed overview of the story – as this webpage has a target audience of adults, only use it as an extension activity).
I love learning about the Victorians because it was my favourite time ever, thanks Mr Antcliffe.
I have researched lots about the Victorians and I have started to to do my project – I am focusing on Charles Dickens.
Thank you for this wonderful blog entry now I can learn all about important times in Victorian Times.
Thank you again Mr. Antcliffe
Some of Dickens houses’ are still standing like 48 Doughty Street. His museum has some of the best reading material in the world, a lot of the reading material is his own work. He wrote Oliver Twist in 48 Doughty Street
There was a very big difference between poor people and rich people in Victorian Times as wealthy people could afford to go to school and poor people couldn’t.
~Victorians liked long words;
~Charles Dickens was Queen Victoria’s favourite author although she did not like reading;
~The Victorians invented many things including electric lights;
~Queen Victoria had nine children and did not like most of them especially the oldest as she thought he would be a rubbish king later on; and
~Queen Victoria went to a work house and a boy stole her purse, 71 children were innocent but still got the cane.
I love learning about the Victorians. I think it is really fun to learn about a different lifestyle from over 100 years ago! Here are some facts:
– In a Victorian school there was a book called the logbook, it was a very important book though because it recorded everything that happened.
– Many children lived in workhouse, these weren’t very nice places.