Resource created by: Kirklees Community History Services
This resource provides information on various aspects of Victorian life, with particular reference to Huddersfield.
Curriculum Links
- KS2 English/Literacy - Reading and discussing a wide range of texts, including non-fiction and poetry
- KS2 History - What was it like for children living in Victorian Britain?
- The resource will also support Drama and Citizenship.
Learning Objectives
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Understand more about children's lives and the development of the local area
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Discuss and analyse a variety of different sources to help develop ideas for independent work
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Develop their own material using the content of the resource.
See each individual chapter below for discussion ideas.
There are also a series of audio clips featuring Yorkshire dialect poems, extracts from a workhouse resident and an extract from Dickens' 'David Copperfield':