Activities
A case study for Key Stage 2, The Victorians and Key Stage 3, Britain 1750 â€" 1900 and GCSE History
This case study looks at the sentence given to a man caught stealing in the 19th century. It deals with a typical crime carried out by an habitual criminal.
It deals with a number of issues in the history of crime and punishment in the 19th century.
Key Stage 2: The Victorians
Objectives:
- To find out from a case reconstruction what happened in Victorian courts
- To see how the reconstruction is supported by the evidence
- To understand why stealing of crops was so common in the Victorian countryside
- To understand how the offenders were treated by the authorities
- To understand the attitudes of Victorian farmers to theft of small amounts of their crops
- To consider the differences between treatment of offenders then and now
- To role play the situation using the available evidence
Key Stage 3: Britain 1750 - 1900
Objectives:
- To understand the extent to which Walker's means of earning a living, the conditions under which he worked, the family home and the sentence he was given were typical of the later 19th century in the English countryside
- To use the primary and secondary evidence in order to draw conclusions about the situation.
