1. The Victorian Age- England ( c. 1800’s
Power notes
By: Kalli McNair

2. Clothing
Clothing
Men; top hats, walking sticks, waist coats
Women; long dresses/ skirts, hats or bonnets
Children; miniature versions of their parents
In the Victorian Age, everyone seemed to have very fancy clothes to ware on daily basis. It looks like they always wanted to present themselves nicely.

3. Education School Only a few kids actually went ( rich )
Poor children worked instead of attending school
Some couldn’t afford it.
Education in the Victorian age wasn’t as important as it is today. Many people grew up without education and thought they didn’t need it. If kids did go to school , they were rich and probably a majority of the children that went were boys because girls stayed home to work on household chores.

4. Religion Church of England Rigid, formal structures
Unreachable, Highly Educated
Humiliated lower classes
The church of England seemed to be very powerful. They thought they were better then all the churches in town, they were very educated and some people in other churches didn’t even go to school.

5. Labor
Servants
Butlers
Maids
Cooks
Coachmen
Gamekeepers
Gardeners

6. Housing
Homes
Built from the same material: local stone, timber, straw, bricks.
Tiny cottages
Not many people had cars
Cramped : one family in one room , multiple families in one house
chimneys

7. Daily Life Children were well- mannered
Five or more children in a family
Had servants in almost all houses
Went to church twice on every Sunday
Relied on foods that were in season until the railroads were built
Money ; pounds, shillings, pence

8. Social Classes Working class- paid daily, or weekly wages.
Middle Class- paid monthly or annually.
Upper class- income came from inherited land and investments
Criminal classes- burglars, mudlarks, smash and grab

9. Social Issues
Disease
Rich and poor
Poverty

10. A child / adolescent role in society
children at work
Worked at: Factories, mines, farms, servants, housemaids, went to sea, city streets( selling flowers, bows, ribbions )
Started work at age 5
Their families needed money
Children in The Victorian Age had a lot of responsibility.
They were expected to support their families whether they wanted to or not. Instead of going to school at the age of 5 , they went to work to make money if their family was becoming poor.

11. Work Cited:
Barrow, Mandy. "Project Britain: The Victorians." Project Britain: The Victorians.
Mandybarrow.com, n.d. Web. 18 Feb
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