Feature video: The world's first factories
The story of how the first factories came to be, and what they look like.
Supports: textbooks History: Georgian Times, Victorian times, Geography: Where we live (settlement)
Playing time: 7 min

Featured video: the Victorian sailor's chest
Shows an artifact and how hidden compartments reveal aspects of what a sailor's life was like.
Supports: textbook 'How life changed in Victorian times'.
Playing time: 15 min

Video playlist 1

Introduction: classroom cinema
Introduction, setting the scene for the Victorians and Victorian times.
Supports: textbook 'How life changed in Victorian times'.
Playing time: 7 min (V143)

A city in 1837
Describes a city at the start of Victorian times when there was no railway.
Supports: textbook 'How life changed in Victorian times'.
Playing time: 6 min (V141)

Athletics shop
Find out what upper class Victorian sports were like.
Supports: textbook 'How life changed in Victorian times'.
Playing time: 4 min (V140)

Why most Victorian children worked
Shows factory working and explains why it happened.
Supports: textbook 'How life changed in Victorian times'.
Playing time: 4 min (V139)

Children down the mines
Talks about England at the start of Tudor times.
Supports: textbook 'How life changed in Victorian times'.
Playing time: 3 min (V138)

Kerbstone merchant
Looks at how pavement sellers worked.
Supports: textbook 'How life changed in Victorian times'.
Playing time: 4min (V136)

Victorian dress
Describes what Victorians wore.
Supports: textbook 'How life changed in Victorian times'.
Playing time: 4 min (V135)

Toy shop
Describes the kinds of toys wealthy children could have.
Supports: textbook 'How life changed in Victorian times'.
Playing time: 4min (V134)

Middle class homes
Explains what living in a villa was like.
Supports: textbook 'How life changed in Victorian times'.
Playing time: 5 min (V133)

Victorian mansion
Shows the outside and inside of a wealthy Victorian mansion, highlighting toys, furniture, decorations and architectural features. It also describes what the lives of those who lived in such mansions were might have been like.
Supports: textbook 'How life changed in Victorian times'.
Playing time: 8 min

Lower class homes
Explains what living in a terraced house was like.
Supports: textbook 'How life changed in Victorian times'.
Playing time: 3 min (V132)

The railway comes to the city
Explains what court housing was like under a viaduct. This is a very famous picture. Children should look carefully at the detail in the textbook.
Supports: textbook 'How life changed in Victorian times'.
Playing time: 3 min (V131)

Silloth: a Victorian seaside planned town
Gives a tour of Silloth on the coast at Cumbria, a favoured spot for those arriving from Southern Scotland and Carlisle by train.
Supports: textbook 'How life changed in Victorian times'.
Playing time: 12 min (V130)

The Victorian sailor's chest
Shows an artifact and how hidden compartments reveal aspects of what a sailor's life was like.
Supports: textbook 'How life changed in Victorian times'.
Playing time: 15 min (V142)

A Victorian school
A look at a Victorian schoolroom through a photograph taken at the time.
Supports: textbook 'How life changed in Victorian times'.
Playing time: 4 min (V137)

Pen and ink
Shows pens and inkpots, and how they were used for writing.
Supports: textbook 'How life changed in Victorian times'.
Playing time: 2 min (V1089)

School attendance medal
Shows a Victorian school attendance medal, and explains why some children did not always go to school.
Supports: textbook 'How life changed in Victorian times'.
Playing time: 2 min (V1090)

School copybook
Shows some copy books like the ones that would have been used by Victorian schoolchildren to practise writing letters and words.
Supports: textbook 'How life changed in Victorian times'.
Playing time: 2 min (V1099)

Writing slate
Shows a slate pencil and slate being used for writing, which is how they were used in Victorian classrooms.
Supports: textbook 'How life changed in Victorian times'.
Playing time: 2 min (V1100)

School bell
Shows a Victorian hand-held school bell.
Supports: textbook 'How life changed in Victorian times'.
Playing time: 1 min (V1094)