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- urbanisationEmpire 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• http://www.vam.ac.uk/moc/childrens_lives • http://www.learningcurve/snapshots

Travel for pleasure, the Seaside, sport, advertising

Photography

• Julia Margaret Cameron• http://www.vam.ac.uk

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