Introduction to Victorian Era London:
First, watch any 3 of the following 5 short video clips below. Make notes on your handout as the clips play. Write by hand. Do not type.
Then read a quick summary of the era and London: VictorianLondon_fromGraphicNovel
Dickens’ London in pictures from the London Telegraph
Take a virtual tour of the birthplace of Charles Dickens from the Telegraph
Learn about the life of Charles Dickens from an NPR story
A few other great RESOURCES on Dickens and Victorian London
Charles Dickens and the Street Children of London by Andrea Warren
Chapter 2: “The Poor People of London”
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Chapter 1: “The Man in the Shadows”
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Chapter 7: “The Workhouse”
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Important Victorian Era happenings
cholera outbreaks and Dr. John Snow by Steven Johnson who wrote The Ghost Map
Steven Johnson talks about Ghost Map
child labor
What the Victorians Did for Us series from the BBC
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