This book covers a wide range of historical and social issues within the Victorian period. This includes the Royal Family, inventions, the seaside, hospitals and health, clothes and crime and punishment. Readers are also introduced to the major personalities of the day including Queen Victoria, Brunel, Gladstone and Disraeli and Florence Nightingale. A wide range of visual sources of information are used such as artefacts, contemporary illustrations, photographs and posters to really bring the subject to life.
This is Book 1 in the History Starts Here S. Series. See all History Starts Here S. books here.
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John Malam studied Ancient History and Archaeology at the University of Birmingham, after which he worked as an archaeologist at the Ironbridge Gorge Museum in Shropshire. He is now an author specialising in information books for children. John also writes a weekly children`s book review column for the Manchester Evening News. He lives in Cheshire with his w
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