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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Undoubtedly one of the worst floods and natural disasters of the Victorian era was the Great Sheffield Flood in 1864. A total of 238 people, many of whom were children ... and submerged the city’s ...