Workshops: The Victorians

This time of great social and international change is bought to life with workshops focusing on work and the poor in Britain’s cities as well as imperial conquest and impact abroad.

Session 1 – Strict Schoolmasters

We recreate the austere setting of the Victorian schoolroom right in your classroom and take children on a journey to the
kind of schooling their great-great grandparents experienced.

Session 2 – Beware the Workhouse pt 1

A journey into a time of great social change; this session sees students taking on the safer, cleaner and more secure jobs of the Victorian era from serving staff in a Great House to Ladies’ maid and more.

Session 3 – Beware the Workhouse pt 2

A journey into a time of great social change; this session sees students taking on the dirtier, more dangerous jobs children often had to do in Victorian England.

Session 4 – Precious Playtime

With our unrivalled collection of authentic toys and games we lighten the mood and take your children back to a simpler time
where they can play without screens and waken their imagination.

Session 5 – Barbaric Battles:

Choose from a range of battles as we explore the might of the British Armed forces & expanding empire in one of our most popular workshop formats: Balaclava, Isandlwana/Rorke’s Drift

Key Learning Areas:

  • Understanding Social mobility in Britain
  • Comparing then and now
  • How children worked and were educated

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