What Families Were Like
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Book 10
Book 11
In Victorian England, family life was very different from today and this book uses a variety of historical sources such as quotes, photos and artefacts to bring these differences to life. It looks at the family life of Queen Victoria and her subjects - from the rich bourgeois picnics and tennis parties to the lives of street urchins.
During the Second World War, British families had to live very different lives. Most of the men had left Britain to fight. This meant that women had to take over their jobs. Food was in short supply and had to be rationed. Children in towns and cities had to be evacuated to the countryside out of the danger of bombs. This book tells you all this and more about family life during the Second World War.