HISTORY 2 :VICTORIAN BRITAIN (1837-1901)

GAME !! walk through a Victorian House!Travel back in time to Victorian London!

Travel back in time to 1870 and help Ruby & Michael look for their missing dog Sam. 

Have fun !!

http://www.geffrye-museum.org.uk/learning/walk-through-a-victorian-house/walk-through/

             

Some Important People of Victorian Times

 Victoria was born in 1819 in Kensington Palace in London. Her name was Alexandrina Victoria. When Princess Victoria was 18 years old her uncle King William died and she became queen. She was crowned at Westminster Abbey in 1838.  Victoria married her handsome cousin Albert a young prince from Germany. (She had proposed to him). Albert didn't speak English very well and lots of people didn't like him.

  




ALEXANDER  GRAHAM BELL : (1847-1922)

Inventor of the telephone

Charles Dickens 1812-1870

Great novelist of the victorian age. His novels were outstandingly popular in his time and are still popular now. His books include stories about thieves, convicts and schoolboys. He wrote about ordinary people and how they lived, about terrible prisons, bad schools and the workhouse. His famous characters include Oliver Twist, Scrooge and David Copperfield.




                                        2012 : DICKENS BICENTENARY !

VISIT THE CHARLES DICKENS MUSEUM IN LONDON !!

http://www.dickensmuseum.com/






 Celebrating the 200th birthday of Charles Dickens
     http://www.dickens2012.org/


Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)  He created the character Sherlock Holmes.

 

Thomas Edison (1847-1931)

Edison was the inventor of over a thousand ideas which transformed life in the late 19 th century. He invented his own phonograph, and developed with Swan the electirc carbon filament lamp, which eventually became the modern light bulb.

Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale changed the way in which people are looked after when they are ill.

She also had some very important advice to give about bringing up baby!!

                                           



VICTORIAN CHILDREN

What do you know about the children during Victorian times? Read and do the quiz!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/victorian_britain/children_at_school/

Here is Noémie 's powerpoint presentation on schools during the Victorian times.Great job!!

                          

                                                 

                                                OLIVER TWIST   ( Noëmie's work:)