Victorians

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19th century mining disaster

What happened at the Trimdon Grange Mining Disaster?
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4099 is my name (SEND)

How can we share the experiences of someone who lived in the past?
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A ‘right’ to relief?

In what ways did paupers hold the Poor Law to account?

A Great Christmas Inconvenience

What can we learn from the documents about how some Victorians celebrated Christmas?
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All on board!

What can we learn from old board games?
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Black Victorians

How much can documents reveal about the lives of Black people in Victorian Britain?
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Children’s Clothing in the Workhouse

What do the letters tell us about pauper children's clothing in the workhouse?
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Coping with Cholera

How did the authorities react in 19th century?
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Coronations: Ceremony and Change

How can we find out about Coronations in the past? How far have Coronations changed over time?
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Crime and Punishment: Robert Peel

How was law enforcement changed by Sir Robert Peel’s new Metropolitan Police Force?
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Dr James Barry

Why was he significant in 19th century medicine?
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Food Glorious Food

What was food like for a child in the Victorian workhouse?
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Going to School in the Workhouse

How was school for pauper children different, and what was the same?
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Have we underestimated the Victorian Poor?

To what extent did the Victorian Poor accept their fate in the workhouse?
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Health and the Poor Law

To what degree did the Poor Law make an important contribution to Public Health?
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Holding History

What is 'The National Archives'?
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LGBTQ+ Rights in Britain

How have changes in laws and attitudes affected LGBTQ+ people in Britain?
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Protesting against the New Poor Law

What can archival material tell us about protest?
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Punishment in the workhouse – Lesson One

What can ‘pauper voices’ reveal about punishments for workhouse children?
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Punishment in the workhouse – Lesson Two

What can ‘pauper voices’ reveal about attitudes towards punishments in the workhouse?
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The Boxers of Whitechapel

What do the documents reveal about the inhabitants?

Time Travel Club Activities

Discovering The National Archives
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Trimdon

What was it like living in a late 19th century mining town?
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Victorian family history

How can we find out about the life of a Victorian child?
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Victorian Health Reform

How did the Victorians view compulsory vaccination?
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Victorian Railways

Did they create more crime?

Victorians

Affordable holidays for all
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What caused the 1832 Great Reform Act?

Political and social reform in 19th century Britain
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What is a Jubilee?

What can we find out about Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee?
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What was Chartism?

Political and social reform in 19th century Britain
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Whitechapel

How can we find out about what Whitechapel was like in 1888?
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Workhouse Voices

What did paupers say about the Poor Law?
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Workhouse Voices Creative Writing

Stories inspired by letters from the past
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Workhouse Women

How were women treated in the Victorian workhouse?