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Creating web identifiers for every item the BBC has an interest in, and considering those as aggregations of BBC content about that item, allows us to enable very rich cross-domain user journeys. This means BBC content can be discovered by users in many different ways, and content teams within the organisation have a focal point around which to organise their content.

Creating web identifiers for every item the BBC has an interest in, and considering those as aggregations of BBC content about that item, allows us to enable very rich cross-domain user journeys. This means BBC content can be discovered by users in many different ways, and content teams within the organisation have a focal point around which to organise their content.

Worksheets: At Play - Imagine how you played as a Victorian child
At Work 1 - Design a display about working children - part 1
At Work 2 - Design a display about working children - part 2
At School 1 - Imagine a chimney sweep's first day at schools - part 1
At School 2 - Imagine a chimney sweep's first day at schools - part 2

Activities:
Quiz:
An IntroductionVictorian Children - At work, school and playFun activities - pdf 65k
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Pictures
A Victorian slum
Families emigrating from Britain to Canada
Fleet Street, 1894
Swainson Birley Cotton Mill
Hungry street-children
A map of the British Empire

Videos:
Find out the what was in the schoool diaryWatch what it was like to be a governessSee what it was like working in the textile millsWatch how the education was in a Board SchoolSee the working class girls working as domestic serviceWatch this clip about education in Victorian times Watch this clip about jobs like bird scaring

An introduction, Children at work, Children in coal mines, Children in factories, Children at school, Victorian schools, Children at play, Rich and poor families, Leisure, Toys and games

Worksheets:
Rationing - Make your own "make do and mend" designs, Evacuation 1 - Write a letter to a friend about being an evacuee, Evacuation 2 - Write a letter to home as an evacuee, Home Life - Choose what to take into an air raid shelter

Activities:
Quiz: The world at war, Evacuees' letters - On rationing, evacuation, home, A wartime home - Explore its rooms and shelter, Rationing - Shop for a meal in 1943, Fun activities - World at war

Pictures: Anne Frank's diary, Adolph Hitler, Saying goodbye, War declared, German bombers, The D-Day landings, Allied servicemen, Children leaving their homes

World at war, Children at war, Evacuation, Air raids, Wartime homes, Daily life Food and shopping, Growing up in wartime, The war effort, The war ends

Worksheets: Anglo-Saxon manuscripts - Make your own Anglo-Saxon manuscript.
, Anglo-Saxon riddles - Solve the Anglo-Saxon riddles and try writing your own.
, Anglo-Saxon runes - Write in runes, like the Anglo-Saxons did.
, Make your own timeline - Test your knowledge by arranging time period tabs.
, Not in my day - Spot five objects not found in an Anglo-Saxon home.

Activities:
Quiz: Who were the Anglo-Saxons?, Fun activities - Who were the Anglo-Saxons?, Game: Hild and the village feast

Pictures: Map of Anglo-Saxon settlers, Hadrian's wall, The Roman walls of Portchester Castle, The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, A Roman soldier

Who were they?, Invasion and settlement, Anglo-Saxon life, Growing up, Stories and pastimes, Anglo-Saxon beliefs, Kings and laws, Anglo-Saxons at war, Alfred the Great, What happened to them?

Worksheets: Viking explorer game - Can you survive a Viking adventure?, Rune stones - Write a message in runes on a rune stone., A day in the life of a Viking - Imagine living in Viking times., Make your own timeline - Test your knowledge by arranging the period tabs

Activities: Quiz: Who were the Vikings?, Thorkel and the trading voyage, Fun activities - Who were the Vikings?

Pictures: Map of Viking homelands and settlements, Letter of Alcuin, Ribblehead farmstead, Viking ship illustration, Qassiarsuk ruins, Jarlshof ruins

Videos:
Where did the Vikings come from?Where Vikings came fromWhere did the Vikings go to when they left Lindisfarne?

Who were the Vikings? Vikings at home, Family life, Beliefs and stories, Vikings at sea, Trade and exploration, Viking raiders, Viking settlements Viking towns, What happened to them?

Worksheets: Resource: List of the Roman Emperors, Problem Pots - Fix broken Roman pots, Shopping and spending - Work out how much you spent on Roman items, Festival fashion - Make your own brooch, Terrible tombstones - Create Roman tombstones, Create a dice - Cut out and fold a Roman dice, Pocket money pouch - Make your own bulla, a Roman bag

Activities: Quiz: City of RomeFun activities, City of RomeResource: List of the Roman Emperors

Pictures: Julius Caesar, Romulus and Remus, The Forum, The Roman Empire around 44 BC, A silver coin made for emperor Augustus, Septimius Severus

Videos: The areas of a Roman villa, Watch how archaeologists dig at Vindolanda, Septimius Severus and black soldiers, Find out why Caesar came to Britain

Dig It Up: Romans

City of Rome, Invasion, Rebellion, Roman defence of Britain, The Roman army, Roads and places, Leisure, Family and children, Technology, Religion, Roman remains