it helped wealthy families to have more children, and these families would choose much larger houses in which to comfortably live. Whereas poor families might still all live in one room, in cramped ...

audioStreet children ‘Street children’ consists of three episodes about what life was like for city children working to survive in the Victorian era. Chimney-sweeps. audioChimney-sweeps ...

In Victorian times every piece of clothing or footwear – or headwear – had to be made by hand. The fabrics and materials used were different before the Victorian era. If you were poor ... was a simple ...

The population of towns and cities rapidly increased in the Victorian period as people moved to find work. Children from poorer communities often worked in factories and on farms. The 1833 Factory ...