Listen to the diary entries of Edward Hampton and discover what life was like between 1914 and 1918. What subjects were taught at school, what could people do for entertainment and how did children help with the war effort?
Explore what it was like to be a child during different times in history!
Listen to the diary entries of Edward Hampton and discover what life was like between 1914 and 1918. What subjects were taught at school, what could people do for entertainment and how did children help with the war effort?
Then, Dan and Bex have found a book that transports them back to Victorian Britain! They’re exploring all the grim and nasty jobs that children just like you had to do in the past, from picking up poop to popping up chimneys.
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You might take being warm and cozy in your house for granted, but the people of the Black Country definitely didn’t back in the Victorian era!
Most people back then had to rely on fire in their homes to keep warm. With finding the fuel for the fire, s…
You might take being warm and cozy in your house for granted, but the people of the Black Country definitely didn’t back in the Victorian era! Most people back then had to rely on fire in their homes to keep warm. With finding the fuel for the fire, st…
Staying healthy is really important, but with all those factories and mines in the Black Country, doing that was easier said than done.
People would get ill and injured a lot back then but not everyone could go to the doctors to get their health probl…
Staying healthy is really important, but with all those factories and mines in the Black Country, doing that was easier said than done. People would get ill and injured a lot back then but not everyone could go to the doctors to get their health proble…
People in the Black Country didn’t just work in the factories all the time, they had to eat too!
Getting a good meal back then was a little different back then, lots of families would get a lot of food themselves. They would grow vegetables on their o…
People in the Black Country didn’t just work in the factories all the time, they had to eat too! Getting a good meal back then was a little different back then, lots of families would get a lot of food themselves. They would grow vegetables on their ow…
Queen Victoria meant a lot to the people of the Black Country.
Many pubs and houses around the Black Country would have a picture of the Queen hanging in them to honor her.
Usually, if you were expecting to see the queen you would probably have to be…
Queen Victoria meant a lot to the people of the Black Country. Many pubs and houses around the Black Country would have a picture of the Queen hanging in them to honor her. Usually, if you were expecting to see the queen you would probably have to be i…
Mary Macarthur was a pretty amazing woman in the Black Country’s history.
Lots of women workers back then used to be treated very unfairly, they were made to work long hours and for not very much money at all!
It was a hard and horrible life, but the…
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