Picturing History Key ideas and Starting points with a Victorian Theme
Work class poverty Children at work Education Barnado ‘ Lord Shaftesbury Charity Charles Dickens Charles Kingsley Points of view PHSE/ Citizenship
Industrialisation- coal and cotton Mining disasters – see learning curve Tyneham Disaster Edwin Chadwick – reform legislation Change – state intervention in welfare, health and education
Captains of industry- big ideas Titanic Great Britain The Lighthouse Stephensons Local History Science, Darwin medicine
Town and country- urbanisation Empire and exploration
Places architecture- gothic, classical big and small
(Royal) Family Life
Famous People, writers, poetry Lewis Carroll Edward Lear Beatrix Potter Thomas Hood, The Song of the Shirt Robert Browning- Pied Piper Tennyson Charge of the Light Brigade
Material prosperity – emergence of the middle class, Mrs Beeton, Victorian Christmas, Charles Dickens
Womens Lives Famous women Mary Seacole Grace Darling Florence Nightingale Mary Kingsley cartoons
Children’s toys and games rich and poor
Railways and other transport
Omnibus Life
Rain Steam And Speed- artists respond
Pastimes seaside, zoo, museums, railway Foreign travel- alpinism Thomas Cook Reading novels serials, poems, libraries Lectures Music, theatre, singing and playing Art- making and looking Games, puzzles, sewing, knitting etc Gardens, plants, gardening
Travel for pleasure, the Seaside, sport, advertising
Photography Julia Margaret Cameron Explore her photographs Lewis Carroll Roger Fenton Richard Nicklin Fox Talbot Laycock Abbey Raised questions for painters… Social uses
Sources outcomes Music, music hall, religion
The Great Exhibition