Children in the Workhouse - The history of the workhouse.
Workhouses teaching resources for Key Stage 2 - Year 3, 4, 5, 6. Created for teachers, by teachers! Professional The Victorians teaching resources.
By the 1860s, the Victorian talent for mechanical and engineering inventiveness was beginning to make its mark on institutional kitchens such as those found in larger workhouses. All manner of novel machines for preparing and cooking industrial quantities of food were devised and heavily advertised in the trade press of the day.
The workhouse system evolved in the 17th century, allowing parishes to reduce the cost to ratepayers of providing poor relief. The first authoritative figure for numbers of workhouses comes in the next century from The Abstract of Returns made by the Overseers of the Poor, which was drawn up following a government survey in 1776.It put the number of parish workhouses in England and Wales at.
In the 1830s children could wave at puffing steam trains on the railways. By the 1860s, they rode bicycles, watched airships, ate tinned food, and talked excitedly of the latest huge iron steamships.In the 1880s, lucky children could speak on the telephone and in the 1890s they could travel by motor car. Life was not the same for all children during the Victorian times.
This pack is a brilliant way to begin the topic and to encourage discussion about workhouses and their place in Victorian society. Linked to this resource: Children at Work in the Victorian Era PowerPoint.
WORKHOUSES IN THE VICTORIAN AGE Strand Union Workhouse - Londra A workhouse was a place where those unable to support themselves were offered accommodation and employment. Workhouses are closely associated with life in Victorian England, although they are in fact much older.
This fact file is a great way to teach students about Victorian history. Useful for a context task if completing the study of a 19th century English novel, this Living in the Victorian Workhouse pack has a choice of three differentiated sheets of comprehension questions. Vocabulary sheets and teaching ideas are also included.