History Investigators!

Date: 22nd Sep 2020 @ 12:21pm

We're absolutely loving our Victorians topic, and have spent today exploring a primary source - a painting called "The Homeless in Victorian Britain", painted by Luke Fildes in 1874. We used our careful observation skills to notice every detail of the painting, and made inferences about what we thought was happening. It's quite a sad and shocking painting, showing a queue of people - men, women and children - waiting outside a police station to see if they would be given a ticket to stay in a workhouse for the night.

We're starting to realise that life for the Victorian poor was incredibly difficult, both through our primary source research in history, and through the themes that Charles Dickens includes in Oliver Twist, which is our current text in reading. It's provoking a lot of thoughtful discussion!