The Victorian times mean Victoria rules The time when Queen Victoria was on the throne She ruled for 64 years She was the longest reigning monic until Wednesday 9 September 2015 Who were the Victorians ID: 567188
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Victorian times
The Victorian times mean Victoria rules. The time when Queen Victoria [ was on the throne. She ruled for 64 years. She was the longest reigning monic until Wednesday 9 September 2015Slide3
Who were the Victorians?
The Victorian age in British history is named after Queen Victoria, who was Britain's queen from 1837 until 1901.
What was life like for Victorian children? There were big differences in homes, schools, toys and entertainments. No TV, no computers, no central heating, no cars (until the last few years of Victoria's reign). No air travel - unless you went up in a balloon! Many children went to work, not to school. Welcome to the Victorian world. It's time to find out how children (your great-great-great-grandparents perhaps!) lived more than a hundred years ago.Slide4
Queen Victoria
Queen Victoria was the only child of prince Edward[duke of Kent] and Princess Victoria Mary Louisa of Sax Coburg Sallfeld. She was born in Kensington Palace London.
At the age of 21, Victoria married her cousin, Albert of Saxe-Coburg Gotha, a German Prince. They married on the 10th February 1840 at the Chapel Royal in St. James's Palace.
Victoria
had nine children, 40 grand-children and 37 great-grandchildren, scattered all over Europe. Most of Queen Victoria's children married into other royal families of Europe.Slide5
The Work House
Before 1834, poor people were looked after by buying food and clothing from money collected from land owners and other wealthy people.
The Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, ensured that no able-bodied person could get poor relief unless they went to live in special workhouses. The idea was that the poor were helped to support
themselves .Workhouses
were where poor people who had no job or home lived. They earned their keep by doing jobs in the workhouse.
Also in the workhouses were orphaned (children without parents) and abandoned children, the physically and mentally sick, the disabled, the elderly and unmarried mothers
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They had to work for their food and accommodation
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This is a picture of a work house.Slide6
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A workhouse provided:
a place to live
a place to work and earn money
free medical care,
food
clothes
free education for children and training for a job.
But it was still terrible.Slide7
Here is a view of workhouse roomsSlide8
Why were workhouses feared by the poor and old?
The government, terrified of encouraging 'idlers' (lazy people), made sure that people feared the workhouse and
would do anything to keep out of it.
What were workhouses like?
Women, children and men had different living and working areas in the workhouse, so
families were split up
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To make things even worse they could be punished if they even tried to speak to one another!
The education the children received did not include the two most important skills of all, reading and writing,
which were needed to get a good job.
This meant that everyone looked the same and everyone outside knew they were poor and lived in the workhouse
The poor were
made to wear a uniform
. Upon entering the workhouse, the poor were stripped and bathed
The
food was tasteless
and was the same day after
day . The
young and old as well as men and women were made to
work hard
, often doing unpleasant jobs.
Children
could also find themselves 'hired out' (sold) to work in factories or mines
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They where put into seven
groups:
Men infirm through age or illness
Women infirm through age or illness
Able-bodied men over 15 years
Able-bodied women over 15 years
Boys between 7 and 15
Girls between 7 and 15
Children under the age of
7The seven groups were to be kept totally separated at all times. Married couples, even the elderly, were to be kept apart at all costs
.
Each of the seven classes was supposed to have its own exercise yard.
This
meant that the old, ill, insane, slightly unbalanced and fit were kept together both day and night with no form of diversion
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Fun at home
Victorians made their own entertainment at home. They had no radio or TV. They enjoyed singing, and a rich family would sing around the piano, while poorer families enjoyed tunes on a pipe or a fiddle. Families played card games and board games, and acted out charades. At birthday parties, a special treat was a magic lantern show. An oil or gas lamp sent a beam of light through a glass lens and onto a screen, to show enlarged images, perhaps of wild animals or a story told in pictures.Slide11
Time Line
1819 -Queen Victoria
1830 -first steam railway
1837-Victoria becomes Queen
1838-firt photograph taken
1842 –first mine act
1843 –the first Christmas card
1846 -potato famine
1853 –the war begins
1872-the first soccer FA cup final is played1878 –the first light bulb was invented1891 –free schools for children 1901-Queen Victoria diesSlide12
Why such big families?
Many women had lots of babies.
Child-bearing
could be dangerous, and many women died in childbirth. Many babies also died, from childhood diseases. Queen Victoria had nine children. Her children were called Edward, Alfred, Arthur, Leopold, Victoria, Alice, Helena, Louise and Beatrice. The royal family became a model for other families. Slide13
Nanny in the nursery
Rich families had large houses, with a special room for children called the nursery. This was often at the top of the house. In the nursery younger children ate, played and slept. They were looked after by a woman called a nanny. She took them for walks in the park or to the zoo. Some rich children saw their parents only in the morning and evening, and were looked after mostly by their nanny and by other servants. Most Victorians thought children should be 'seen and not heard'.
The person who looked after the children was called a nanny Slide14
Slum children
Many poor children lived in tiny country cottages or in cityslums. There was no money for toys, nowhere to play except alleys and yards. Many children had to work, while others were too sick and hungry to play. Yet most poor children still managed to make some fun. Slide15
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