Please note: these free resources pre-date the 2014 National Curriculum.

You could start the Victorians with a story.

See the Victorian chimney sweep short lesson exemplar and the
Upstairs Downstairs story in the History section of the Urban Spaces material.

Lessons and short lesson exemplars available on this site:

• Victorian Britain: short lessons and exemplars
• Brunel and Clifton Suspension Bridge
• Children in Victorian Britain: Down the Mine
• Children in Victorian Britain: Henry at boarding school
• Victorian child labour in textile factories
• Victorian child labour: slate mining
• Investigating Victorian mining disasters