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Clothing Research Resources

Guide Questions:

1. What were the clothes like?

2. How is clothing different for people of various classes?

3. Were the clothes comfortable?

4. How many clothes/ outfits did most people have?

5. What kinds of accessories were used?

6. How is the clothing different/ similar for children?

Victorian clothing



Victorian Fashion



Fashion History



Various Links for Victorian info



Victorian Fashion



Victorian men’s wear



Victorian Life



Crinolines and bustles



19th century fashion





Occupations/ Apprenticeships

Resources for Research

Guide Questions

1. For what kinds of jobs would people have training?

2. How long would an apprenticeship last?

3. What kinds of jobs did women have?

4. Who/ what class of people worked during this time?

5. When would people begin to work?

6. How did technology change work in England?

Apprenticeships



Excellent site!



Masters and Men



Change in Victorian England



Technology in Victorian England



Work in Victorian England



Work



Working women



Bankruptcy in Victorian England



Victorian England



Social Classes





Labor Issues

Resources for Research

Guide Questions:

1. What are factories like?

2. What kind of labor exist for the working class?

3. What kind of life do workers have?

4. What are the working conditions like for factory workers?

5. How are working conditions different for children?

6. How are workers paid?

Labor Conditions and Child Labor



Working Conditions



Physical Effects of Workers



Child Labor (I)



Child Labor (II)



A Summary of Child Labor in Victorian England



Victorian Money



The Life of a Servant



Victorian Working Women



Testimony Gathered by Ashley's Mines Commission in 1842



Victorian Social History: An Overview



The Textile Industry



Timeline of laws



The Trade Union Movement



Evidence Given Before the Sadler Committee (Michael Sadler secured a parliamentary investigation of conditions in the textile factories)



The 1833 Factory Act





Education Issues Resources

for Research

Guide Questions:

1. How is schooling different for children of various classes?

2. What did they learn about?

3. What are boarding schools?

4. What was life like in a boarding school?

5. How were 19th century schools different from schools today?

6. What was an apprentice in 1840?

Child Labor



State Involvement in Public Education before the 1870 Education Act describes how many children went to school



Dickens' education



British Education History and Types of Schools



 "Public" Schools



Victorian Social History: An Overview



Daily Life



British Education



How Were we Taught? (Scroll down to BACKGROUND)



Victorian Schools



Charles Dickens and Victorian Education



The History of State Schools (Notice the links on Ragged Schools, Workhouse, Victorian Schools and Dame School)



A Report from a Class in England On Victorian Schools. (They investigated a school 30 years after A Christmas Carol was written. It is a glimpse of life in an elementary school.)



 

Education in Victorian times





Social Issues

Resources for research

Guide Questions:

1. What classes of people live in London?

2. What is the quality of life for different classes?

3. What is daily life like for people living in London?

4. How much is poverty a factor in London?

5. What is it like to be a child in London?

6. Is the quality of life getting better or worse?

Poverty and Socialism



Wages and Quality of Life



Women and Children and Health



Social Issues



Dickens's London: The East End



Child Labor



Dickens on Social Issues



Interactive Map of London



Religion and Society



Social Class



Victorian London



Women, Economic Instability, and Poverty in London During the Nineteenth Century



Victorian Political History: An Overview



A Brief History of London



Bawnboy Workhouse (A place the poor were sent to)



A Tour of Victorian London



Victorian Health Trends



A Caring Nation?



The Workhouse





Timeline of Poor Laws and Workhouses



What did people think of the Poor Law? (Scroll down to BACKGROUND)



Who could vote?





Transportation Resources for research

Guide Questions

1. What were common forms of transportation in this time?

2. How did different classes travel?

3. Was the transportation reliable or comfortable?

4. Was there public transportation?

5. What problems occurred?

6. How did advancements in transportation change life in England?

Virtual Victorian Transportation





Transportation in the 19th century



Victorian Railways







British Waterways and Canals



Travel



Bicycling



Carriages



Transportation





Entertainment & Victorian recreations

Resources for Research

Guide Questions

1. What were some common games/ activities among adults?

2. What games/ activities did children play?

3. In what ways was entertainment different among the classes?

4. What did games/ activities reveal about Victorian life?

5. What games of the Victorian times are similar to those of today?

6. How were activities changing in relationship to the changing times?

Recreations



Useful sites for Victorian entertainment



Victorian England



Sports, hobbies, and past-times



A Happy Nation



Victorian Child Games



Music, Theatre, etc.



Victorian Games and Toys



















Virtual Victorian Leisure





Food Research Resources

Guide Questions:

1. What were meals like for Victorians?

2. Which meal was their main meal?

3. What was the purpose of tea time?

4. How was eating/ meal time different among the classes?

5. How were meals prepared? (appliances/ technology)

6. What was a common Christmas meal like?

The workhouse diet





Fish and Chips



Brunch



Victorian Christmas foods



Victorian Cooking



Victorian Kitchen





Victorian Christmas



High and Low Tea



Virtual Victorians



Food of Industrial England





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