1. Paintings and photographs told the story of Victorian Britain
Paintings and photographs told the story of Victorian Britain. What was that story?
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Britain was a rich and prosperous country but wealth was not equally divided between the rich and the poor. How were their lives different?

2. Thomas Webster (1800 – 1886) was a painter who was born in London but lived most of his life in Kent. He painted scenes of school and village life.
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The Victorian Country Classroom
by Thomas George Webster

3. SAMPLE SLIDE People have been painting and drawing
the world around them
for thousands of years
but the world’s first
photograph was taken
in 1826 by a Frenchman called Joseph Niepce.
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By the end of Queen Victoria’s reign, photographs were quite common and their quality had improved. Photographs and paintings tell us a lot about how people lived in the past.
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4. Who were the Victorians and when did they live?
What do you think life was like for the Victorians and their children?
What was life like for the poor in Victorian times?
How do you think it was different from our lives?
Who helped to improve the lives of Victorian children?
How did life change for the children as they grew up?
To understand that ways of life differed greatly across Victorian Society.
To use evidence from Victorian paintings and photographs to suggest how people from the past lived.
To collect information from a range of sources and draw conclusions about the Victorian period
To understand that there are many representations of the Victorian period
To recognise some similarities and differences between the lives of children from different areas of Victorian
society; ask and answer questions about the period by using at least one source of information
To understand that the work of individuals can change aspects of society
To find out about important figures in Victorian times

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