VICTORIAN times
Life as a Victorian child
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1. Title
2. Contents
3. Poor families
4. Money
5. Children
6. Work
7. Oliver Twist
8. The Workhouse
9. Thanks for watching 
Poor families
 Many people were poor in the Victorian times.
 Families had up to six children and lots of babies so they were always very busy.
 Most children were forced to go and work instead of going to school.
 Some children would help out on a farm or stay at home and do the house work.
Money
 Lots
of Victorians were broke and were in need
of money.
 The oldest children went to work on a farm,
did all the house jobs and became a servants.
 They earned a sixpence every work day.
Children
 Lots
of Victorian children needed to do
jobs like help out on a farm, work as a
servant or just stayed at home doing the
washing up or sewing up torn clothes.
 After they did their jobs, they were too
tired and too hungry to go and play
Work
 The wasn’t that much work in the Victorian times
but people didn’t have a choice if they had a family
to feed.
 Most girls stayed at home to help with the family but
they worked as nannys too.
 Children needed to work hard but they were as
young as six!
Oliver Twist
A
man called Charles Dickens
wrote a book based on a Victorian
child called Oliver Twist.
 Its about an orphan who escapes
the Workhouse and runs away to
London.
 These are pictures of Oliver,
begging for more food.
The Workhouse
 The
Workhouse was a place where you
came to if you didn’t have any job.
 It was infected with diseases and was a
horrible place.
 You got separated from your family first
and got put into different places.
 People were so desperate to not go there
but if they lost their job, it was the only
option.
Thanks for watching!
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