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Victorian artists: Millais
Ford Madox Brown
Holman Hunt (Light of the World picture)
Edward Byrne Jones

4. Show pictures of Victorian toys and puppets from books (see separate sheet).
Compare them with toys the children play with today.

5. Contrast a trip to the seaside in Victorian times with one today. Show pictures
from books and read accounts of Victorian trips to the seaside (see separate
sheet).
www.uea.ac.uk/edu/learn/clowes/seaside.html

6. The children may like to write a story contrasting seaside holidays then and
now in an English lesson.

They could fill in the leisure pursuits on the first worksheet and/or try the
questions on the second one.

Learning for Life (Fulfilment)

1. The children should have appreciated the need to live a balanced life of work
and leisure.

2. They will have contrasted leisure activities then and now.

3. They will hopefully have recognised the talents of Victorian artists and
authors.

VICTORIAN INVENTIONS

Dates for some of these vary according to when work was begun on them to when
they were in the public domain.

1825 First railway

1839 Photography
1844 Morse telegraph
1850s Double-decker buses

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