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Alice Kinloch and the Victorian British Empire

I can explain why Alice Kinloch came to Britain and how she helped miners in Africa

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Alice Kinloch and the Victorian British Empire

I can explain why Alice Kinloch came to Britain and how she helped miners in Africa

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Key learning points

  1. Britain had an empire which meant it controlled a lot of places across the world, including countries in Africa.
  2. Towards the end of Victoria's reign, a woman called Alice Kinloch travelled a long way to come to Britain.
  3. Alice Kinloch was born in South Africa, and had come to Britain with an important mission.
  4. She wanted to speak out about the poor conditions that African miners faced when they worked to find diamonds.
  5. Alice helped to set up a group of people to speak up and help the miners in South Africa.

Keywords

  • Empire - when a country controls other groups of people or other countries, it has an empire

  • South Africa - South Africa is a country located in the southern part of the continent of Africa

  • Diamond - a diamond is a precious gemstone found deep under the earth's surface that has taken millions of years to form

  • Miners - miners are people who work in mines, digging for coal, metals or precious stones like diamonds

Common misconception

That 'South Africa' refers to the southern half of the continent of Africa.

'South Africa' is one single African country, which is located in the south of the continent of Africa. The south of africa (the part that sits in the southern hemisphere) covers a much larger area and includes 15 other individual African countries.

Use a world map or globe to help pupils grasp the vast distance that Alice travelled to reach Britain. Explain how there were no planes or motor cars at that time, so it was a long and slow journey travelling by early trains and boats, or horse drawn carriages.
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Content guidance

  • Depiction or discussion of discriminatory behaviour
  • Depiction or discussion of upsetting content

Supervision

Adult supervision recommended

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Lesson video

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6 Questions

Q1.
Someone who sweeps the soot out of chimneys is called a ...
builder
factory worker
Correct answer: chimney sweep
Q2.
Not all children in Victorian times were able to go to school.
Correct answer: True
False
Q3.
Select the things that could be dug from a mine.
Correct answer: metal
Correct answer: coal
bricks
wood
Q4.
What is a historical source?
deep holes dug in the ground
Correct answer: something from the past that historians look at
someone who sweeps the soot out of chimneys
Q5.
Which of these jobs would children do in Victorian times?
Correct answer: mine worker
Correct answer: chimney sweep
climb trees
Correct answer: factory worker
school teacher
Q6.
Match the words to the description.
Correct Answer:Mine,where coal comes from

where coal comes from

Correct Answer:Heating,what coal was used for

what coal was used for

Correct Answer:Chimney sweep,job done by children

job done by children

6 Questions

Q1.
Match the keyword to the definition.
Correct Answer:miners,people who work in mines

people who work in mines

Correct Answer:empire,when a country controls other groups of people or other countries

when a country controls other groups of people or other countries

Correct Answer:diamond, a precious gemstone found deep underground

a precious gemstone found deep underground

Q2.
The country of South Africa is the southern half of the whole continent of Africa.
True
Correct answer: False
Q3.
Which country was Alice Kinloch born in?
England
France
Scotland
Correct answer: South Africa
Q4.
Miners in Africa were digging to find ...
Correct Answer: diamonds, diamond
Q5.
Miners in Africa worked in very conditions.
good
Correct answer: bad
Q6.
Alice Kinloch wanted to ...
be a diamond miner.
have a holiday in England.
Correct answer: make things fairer for diamond miners.

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