Children in Victorian Times

"Step-Up History" has been created specifically to support the scheme of work in the History Curriculum at KS2.

This CD-ROM for whiteboard is an electronic version of "Children in Victorian Times" from the "Step-Up History" series.

At the start of Queen Victoria's reign (1837-1901) children were treated the same as adults.

By 1901 this had changed. People thought childhood was a special time and children should be treated differently.

This CD-ROM investigates the lives of Victorian children, especially those employed on the land, in factories and mines, and as chimney sweeps.

It introduces people who worked to improve children's lives, and shows how schools were set up and became free for all children.