History
Killhope, The North of England Lead Mining Museum has always provided an excellent environment to inspire and enrich learning about the Victorians. The site offers unique opportunities to discover more about the working conditions and family lives of men, women and children in the North Pennines in the nineteenth century.
With a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund, we have been able to create a new resource to support your work about the Victorians, using Killhope as a stimulus. The teachers pack shows how a visit to Killhope and work in the classroom before and after the visit (including using archival sources such as maps, census returns and photographs) will enable you to address key questions relating to life in Victorian Britain.
Those two questions are:
- What was life like at Killhope during the Victorian era?
- What can we learn about life at Killhope during the Victorian era using different source materials and artefacts?
The pack has been written by local teachers and Killhope staff, and provides a series of lesson plans and supporting resources, as well as information about the history of the site and what we have here. A useful glossary of terms has been included to cover some unfamiliar vocabulary.
We have loans Resource Boxes full of interesting objects to do with Killhope available for teachers to borrow free for a two week period, and you can download a series of lesson plans based around these objects.
Victorians at Killhope - Creative history resource pack for teachers. helps to answer all your questions.
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