This complete lesson plan with image based resources can be used to explore how the language of these government posters is used to persuade and inform.

A lesson plan on Victorian homes. Pupils are gradually introduced to sources on Hackney, starting with a small map section, then photographic evidence, concluding with the census.

This lesson could be used in the context of the history of Crime and Punishment, or as an illustration of one aspect of life in Victorian Britain.

This lesson is designed to learn about what happened at the Trimdon Grange Mining Disaster. The lesson has an inquiry led approach to consider the possible causes of deaths in Victorian Britain.

This lesson can be used ofr KS1, KS2 and KS3. It looks at the story of the fire of London through evidence relating to some of the key characters - Thomas Farrinor and Charles II.

A lesson plan and resources for children to learn about the life and work of Florence Nightingale.

This lesson involves the pupils in detective work, using three crucial sources about the murder of Lord Darnley the husband of Mary Queen of Scots. Pupils can study individual sources and report back to the whole class to answer the mystery.

This lesson features family history documents from the Victorian period. Children can learn how sources can be used to find out things about the past.

The interactive resource invites pupils to become a page at the court of King Henry VIII. The time is 1539, just before Henry’s marriage to his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves, and the page has to help the king write to her. This means exploring Hampton Court to find his portable writing desk. There are a series of onscreen prompts to help with the production of the letter. A writing frame has been created to offer an extended and more structured approach to the letter writing task. Visit for the main resource to use with this writing frame.

This lesson can be used with pupils at key stage 2 to support the teaching of Literacy. It focuses on a photograph of a railway accident in 1868.

In 1882, 74 men and boys lost their lives in an explosion at a coal mine. Almost everyone in the small town of Trimdon Grange near Durham lost a father, brother, husband, or grandfather. Source 1 comes from a popular magazine called the Illustrated London News (1882). Source 2 was written by Tommy Armstrong, who was from the region. All the people and events mentioned in the song are real. This lesson combines History and Literacy to ask pupils to consider how a story is told through narrative poetry.

This lesson is intended for use either as part of a study of the use of propaganda over time, or within the context of work on Elizabethan England and the Spanish Armada.

A lesson to develop pupils understanding of how Elizabeth I presented herself to her subjects in the days before mass media. The sources provided support support the study of some of the key ways in which the Queen’s image was conveyed to her subjects and to be compared to the current queen.

This lesson looks at Queen Victoria and her relationship with her family. The lesson could be extended to work with decoding other photographs or portraits.

This collection of documents relating to the lives of the Victorians is aimed at any teacher or student engaged in a local study of the Victorian period. The sources could be used to help provide a sense of period and show pupils the type of sources they may encounter when looking at material in their local archive, museum or record office. The collection includes pictures, drawings, maps, photographs, advertisements, reports, census pages, letters etc.

This lesson provides material for examining photographs as evidence. It can also be used as stimulus material for looking at the history of education and can also be useful for pupils to investigate the history of their own school.

A lesson plan with various suggestions for KS2 or KS3 pupils to learn about the Spanish Armada. Some of the suggestions in this lesson lend themselves to cross curricular links.

This lesson aims to give pupils the opportunity to use two historical sources to answer questions based on photographs of people of the 19th century.

This lesson is designed to support History KS 1-2, units 11 and 12 to learn about the past times of the Victorian people.