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As your group begins to focus on your topic of labor issues locate information about each of the following guide questions and record this information in your research log. You may use the following links as well as other reference material in the library. In addition, create three questions of your own to research.
Guide Questions:
1. What are factories like?
2. What kind of labor does the workers do?
3. What kind of life do workers have?
4. What are the working conditions like for factory
workers?
5. How are working conditions different for children?
6. How are workers paid?
Possible Links:
Labor Conditions and Child Labor
http://web.archive.org/web/20021003002605/http://members.tripod.com/xu_chen/indusrevolt/ppframe.htm
Working Conditions
http://web.archive.org/web/20020203182609/http://www.hopwood.ac.uk/heritage/local/html/milltown.htm
Physical Effects of Workers
http://web.archive.org/web/20001205153200/http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/history/workers2.html
Child Labor (I)
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/IRchild.htm
Child Labor (II)
http://web.archive.org/web/20001019043751/http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/history/hist8.html
Evidence Given Before the Sadler Committee in 1832
investigating how child workers are treated
http://web.archive.org/web/20011212170058/65.107.211.206/history/workers1.html
A Summary of Child Labor in Victorian England
http://web.archive.org/web/20001019043751/http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/history/hist8.html
Dickens's London: The East End
http://mars.acnet.wnec.edu/~grempel/courses/wc2/lectures/dickens.html
Wages, the Cost of Living, Contemporary Equivalents
to Victorian Money
http://web.archive.org/web/20020209073230/65.107.211.206/economics/wages.html
Victorian Money
http://www.deadline.demon.co.uk/wilkie/coins.htm
The Life of a Servant
http://web.archive.org/web/20001214224500/http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/history/work/burnett3.html
Victorian Working Women
http://web.archive.org/web/20001017065917/http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/history/work/burnett2.html
Testimony Gathered by Ashley's Mines Commission in
1842
http://web.archive.org/web/20001209042000/http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/history/ashley.html
Victorian Social History: An Overview
http://www.victorianweb.org/history/sochistov.html
Daily Life
http://history.evansville.net/industry.html#Daily
Life and Culture
The Textile Industry
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Textiles.htm
Timeline of laws
http://learningcurve.pro.gov.uk/victorianbritain/industrial/timeline2.htm
The Trade Union Movement
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/TU.htm
Evidence Given Before the Sadler Committee (Michael
Sadler secured a parliamentary investigation of conditions in the textile
factories)
http://web.archive.org/web/20001109204400/http://applebutter.freeservers.com/worker/
Victorian Political History: An Overview
http://web.archive.org/web/20001019052223/http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/history/histov.html
The 1833 Factory Act
http://learningcurve.pro.gov.uk/snapshots/snapshot13/snapshot13.htm
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As your group begins to focus on your topic of education issues locate information about each of the following guide questions and record this information in your research log. You may use the following links as well as other reference material in the library. In addition, create three questions of your own to research.
Guide Questions:
1. How is schooling different for children of various
classes?
2, What are they learn about?
3. What are boarding schools?
4. What is life like in a boarding school?
5. How were 19th century schools different from schools
today?
6. What was an apprentice in 1840?
Possible Links:
Child Labor
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/IRchild.main.htm
State Involvement in Public Education before the 1870
Education Act describes how many children went to school
http://web.archive.org/web/20001205100700/http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/history/rosen.html
Dickens' education
http://www.fidnet.com/~dap1955/dickens/dickens_london_map.html#top
British Education History and Types of Schools
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/education.htm
"Public" Schools
http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/history/pubschl.html
Victorian Social History: An Overview
http://www.victorianweb.org/history/sochistov.html
Daily Life
http://history.evansville.net/industry.html#Daily
Life and Culture
British Education
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/education.htm
How Were we Taught? (Scroll down to BACKGROUND)
http://learningcurve.pro.gov.uk/snapshots/snapshot15/snapshot15.htm
Victorian Schools
http://history.powys.org.uk/school1/llanidloes/edmenu.shtml
Charles Dickens and Victorian Education
http://humwww.ucsc.edu/dickens/OMF/litvack.html
The History of State Schools (Notice the links on Ragged
Schools, Workhouse, Victorian
Schools and Dame School)
http://web.archive.org/web/20001001190004/http://panizzi.shef.ac.uk/med/cathy/intro.html
A Report form a Class in England On Victorian Schools.
(They investigated a school 30 years after A Christmas Carol was
written. It is a glimpse of life in an elementary school.)
http://www.sol.co.uk/s/StThomas/victorian_school.htm
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As your group begins to focus on your topic of industry issues locate information about each of the following guide questions and record this information in your research log. You may use the following links as well as other reference material in the library. In addition, create three questions of your own to research.
Guide Questions:
1. Give a brief definition of the Industrial Revolution.
2. When did this occur?
3. Give examples of two inventions that affected life
in London.
4. What are factories like?
5. What positive effects have industrialization had
on the people of London?
6. What negative effects have industrialization had
on the people of London?
7. How will the people of London benefit from increased
industrialization?
Possible Links:
Technical Advances
http://web.archive.org/web/20021003002605/http://members.tripod.com/xu_chen/indusrevolt/ppframe.htm
Daily Life and Culture
http://history.evansville.net/industry.html#Daily
Life and Culture
A Trip to the Past
http://web.archive.org/web/20000816063032/http://members.aol.com/mhirotsu/kevin/trip2.html
Child Labor
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/IRchild.main.htm
Blackening Factory
http://yn.la.ca.us/victorian/hypermail/0134.html
Victorian Technology
http://www.victorianweb.org/technology/technolov.html
Ages of Technology
http://www.victorianweb.org/technology/sci3.html
Science and Technology Timeline
http://www.victorianweb.org/science/science.html
Victorian Social History: An Overview
http://www.victorianweb.org/history/sochistov.html
Age of Industry
http://history.evansville.net/industry.html
Daily Life
http://history.evansville.net/industry.html#Daily
Life and Culture
The Industrial Revolution
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook14.html
The Textile Industry
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Textiles.htm
An account of the effects of the loss of spinning work
for those previously employed in "cottage industry" (doing spinning at
home).
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1794woolens.html
Victorian Political History: An Overview
http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/history/histov.html
How did railroads change the lives of the people in
Victorian England?
http://learningcurve.pro.gov.uk/victorianbritain/happy/default.htm
As your group begins to focus on your topic of health issues and sanitary conditions locate information about each of the following guide questions and record this information in your research log. You may use the following links as well as other reference material in the library. In addition, create three questions of your own to research.
1. What are the major health issues in London?
2. Are sanitary conditions getting better or worse
at the present (1840's)?
3. What illnesses are prevalent in London and what
might be spreading them?
4. What differences are there in the health issues
between the lower class and the upper class?
General health and life expectancy
http://www.victorianweb.org/science/health/healthov.html
Nutrition
http://www.victorianweb.org/science/health/health8.html
Pregnancy and Childbirth
http://www.victorianweb.org/science/health/health6.html
Conception, Pregnancy, and Childbirth in Mid-Victorian
Hastings
http://www.victorianweb.org/gender/wojtczak/pregnancy.html
Nineteenth-Century Views of Blindness and Deafness
http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/bronte/cbronte/sharman10.html
Dickens on Social Issues
http://yn.la.ca.us/victorian/hypermail/0134.htm
Poverty and Socialism
http://web.archive.org/web/20021003002605/http://members.tripod.com/xu_chen/indusrevolt/ppframe.htm
Wages and Quality of Life
http://www.victorianweb.org/science/health/health9.html
Dickens's London: The East End
http://mars.acnet.wnec.edu/~grempel/courses/wc2/lectures/dickens.html
Report on Sanitary Conditions in 1842
http://www.victorianweb.org/history/chadwick2.html
Victorian Technology
http://www.victorianweb.org/technology/technolov.html
Ages of Technology
http://www.victorianweb.org/technology/sci3.html
Science and Technology Timeline
http://www.victorianweb.org/science/science.html
Daily Life
http://history.evansville.net/industry.html#Daily
Life and Culture
Victorian London
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/ITlondon.htm
Food in Factories
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/IRfood.factory.htm
Factory Pollution
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/IRpollution.htm
Deformities
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/IRdeformities.htm
Chadwick's Report on Sanitary Conditions (an Inquiry
into the Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Population of London, 1842
http://applebutter.freeservers.com/worker/index2.html#chadwick
Rural Hygiene - What was hygiene like in the country?
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/nightingale-rural.html
Observations on the Filth of the Thames (the river
that goes through London)
http://dbhs.wvusd.k12.ca.us/Chem-History/Faraday-Letter.html
A Brief History of London
http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/history/hist4.html
Victorian Medicine
http://www.geocities.com/victorianmedicine/entire.html
A Healthy Nation?
http://learningcurve.pro.gov.uk/victorianbritain/healthy/default.htm
The History of London Sewers
http://www.masterplumbers.com/plumbing/plumbviews/1999/toilet_tribute.html
Health Timeline
http://learningcurve.pro.gov.uk/victorianbritain/healthy/timeline.htm
As your group begins to focus on your topic of gender issues (the role of women) locate information about each of the following guide questions and record this information in your research log. You may use the following links as well as other reference material in the library. In addition, create three questions of your own to research.
Guide Questions
1. How is the political role of women in various social
classes different?
2. How is the the economic role of women differ from
class to class?
3. What is the social role of women in different classes?
4. What is the role of women in literature and the
arts?
5. Are women allowed to have the same roles as men?
If not, what are the major areas they differed in? How were they different?
The Life of a Servant
http://www.victorianweb.org/history/work/burnett3.html
Victorian Working Women
http://www.victorianweb.org/history/work/burnett2.html
Victorian Women -- Economic Contexts
http://www.victorianweb.org/gender/femeconov.html
Victorian Women -- Social and Political Contexts
http://www.victorianweb.org/gender/political.html
Victorian Social History: An Overview
http://www.victorianweb.org/history/sochistov.html
The Emancipation of Women
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/women.htm
Daily Life
http://history.evansville.net/industry.html#Daily
Life and Culture
Victoria becomes Queen
http://www.ibiscom.com/19frm.htm
English Laws for Women in the Nineteenth Century (1854)
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/norton/englaw.html
Women, Economic Instability, and Poverty in London
During the Nineteenth Century
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/huysman-london.html
A Divided Nation
http://learningcurve.pro.gov.uk/victorianbritain/divided/default.htm
The Emancipation of Women from Spatacus Encyclopaedia
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/women.htm
Victorian Political History: An Overview
http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/history/histov.html
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As your group begins to focus on your topic of social issues locate information about each of the following guide questions and record this information in your research log. You may use the following links as well as other reference material in the library. In addition, create three questions of your own to research.
Guide Questions:
1. What classes of people live in London?
2. What is the quality of life for different classes?
3. What is daily life like for people living in London?
4. How much is poverty a factor in London?
5. What is it like to be a child in London?
6. Is the quality of life getting better or worse?
Possible Links:
Poverty and Socialism
http://members.tripod.com/xu_chen/indusrevolt/ppframe.htm/
Wages and Quality of Life
http://www.victorianweb.org/science/health/health9.html
Women and Children and Health
http://www.victorianweb.org/science/health/health6.html
Social Issues
http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/dickens/dickens1.html
Dickens's London: The East End
http://mars.acnet.wnec.edu/~grempel/courses/wc2/lectures/dickens.html
Child Labor
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/IRchild.main.htm
Dickens on Social Issues
http://yn.la.ca.us/victorian/hypermail/0134.html
Dickens's London: The East End
http://mars.acnet.wnec.edu/~grempel/courses/wc2/lectures/dickens.html
Interactive Map of London
http://www.fidnet.com/~dap1955/dickens/dickens_london_map.html#top
Links to Workhouses, Hospitals Prisons, Gaols and Reformatories,
Streets, Churches, Almshouses and more in Victorian London
http://www.gendocs.demon.co.uk/victorian.html#HOME
Religion and Society
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/religion.htm
Social Class
http://www.victorianweb.org/history/Class.html
Victorian London
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/ITlondon.htm
Women, Economic Instability, and Poverty in London
During the Nineteenth Century
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/huysman-london.html
Victorian Political History: An Overview
http://www.victorianweb.org/history/histov.html
A Brief History of London
http://www.victorianweb.org/history/hist4.html
Bawnboy Workhouse (A place the poor were sent to)
http://web.archive.org/web/20001117123600/http://www.cavannet.ie/history/archeo/sites/work-hse.htm
A Tour of Victorian London
http://cityofshadows.stegenga.net/viclondontour1.html
Victorian Health Trends
http://www.geocities.com/victorianmedicine/healthtrends.html
A Caring Nation?
http://learningcurve.pro.gov.uk/victorianbritain/caring/default.htm
The Workhouse
http://web.archive.org/web/20001019054735/http://history.powys.org.uk/school1/poor/workmenu.html
Timeline of Poor Laws and Workhouses
http://learningcurve.pro.gov.uk/victorianbritain/caring/timeline2.htm
What did people think of the Poor Law? (Scroll down
to BACKGROUND)
http://learningcurve.pro.gov.uk/snapshots/snapshot08/snapshot8.htm
Who could vote?
http://learningcurve.pro.gov.uk/politics/chartists/default.htm
What was the differences between the homes of the rich
and the homes of the poor? Scroll down to BACKGROUND)
http://learningcurve.pro.gov.uk/snapshots/snapshot14/snapshot14.htm
Snapshots
http://learningcurve.pro.gov.uk/snapshots/