India is a country in southern Asia surrounded on three sides by the Indian Ocean

the female leader of an empire is called an empress

a person who has a job working in someone else's home is a servant

a ruler's household includes all the people who support a ruler and live in the same building as them or very near to them

Victoria, Empress of India

History

Victoria's 'melancholy' childhood

Victoria's accession to the throne

Victoria's proposal and marriage to Albert

Victoria's children

Victorian society

Factories in Britain during Victorian times

The Great Exhibition

Victoria, Scotland and John Brown

Victorian childhood

Alice Kinloch and the Victorian British Empire

Britain at the time of Victoria's death

In ‘Queen Victoria: how did Britain change during her lifetime?’ pupils build on their chronological and substantive understanding in a depth study of Queen Victoria and Victorian Britain. In ‘Significant individuals who changed Britain: how did they fight for change?’ they compare two significant individuals from different periods to develop this further.

In ‘Significant rulers from the past: what can their stories tell us?’ pupils continued to develop their chronological understanding whilst being introduced to various substantive concepts that relate to ruling. In ‘Queen Victoria: how did Britain change during her lifetime?’ pupils build on this in a depth study of a significant individual and the period in which they ruled.

This unit teaches students about life in Britain from 1837-1901. They learn about key events like Victoria's accession, the railways, and the Great Exhibition. The unit explores how her reign defines the period, technological advances, and connections within Britain and globally.

Queen Victoria: how did Britain change during her lifetime?

Discriminatory behaviour or images, whether on the grounds of race, gender, disability, religion or belief or sexual orientation, or otherwise.

Depiction or discussion of discriminatory behaviour

Historic or outdated representations of people that may portray inequality or injustice.

a person who works in someone else's home

 Britain still rules over India today. True or false?

Victoria was given the title 'Empress of India' in ...

 Abdul Karim taught Queen Victoria how to speak ...

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In South Africa, many people worked as ...

Who set up a group to help the miners and change the conditions they were working in?

The largest diamond in the world was found in England.

Queen Victoria ruled over lots of countries in the British {{ }}.

Alice Kinloch came to {{ }} to explain that African miners were not treated fairly.

Select the ways that miners in South Africa were treated.

Victoria, Empress of India

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