Across the curriculum.0:02
Victorian Families Upper and middle class families.0:14
Families were very important to Victorians.0:29
They were usually large, with an average family having at least five or six children.0:32
The father, who perhaps worked in banking or insurance, was the head of the household.0:39
The children would speak politely to him and call him sir.0:46
The mother was responsible for running the household and would usually spend her time planning dinner parties or visiting her dressmaker or friends.0:51
Children saw very little of their parents and spent most of the day in the nursery with a nanny, as Victorians firmly believed that a child should be seen and not heard.1:03
Upper and middle class families lived in large, comfortable houses and had servants, such as a cook and kitchen maids to prepare the family meals, a butler to answer the door and wait on the family, and housemaids to carry1:16
out household chores such as washing clothes, cooking and cleaning.1:33
For entertainment, families visited new parks and museums, such as the Victoria and Albert Museum.1:39
Working class families.1:48
Most of these families lived in small houses.1:51
Often several families lived in a single room.1:54
Houses had no running water and it was not uncommon for a whole street to share two outside toilets and a water pump.1:58
It was very common for poor families to have as many as nine or ten children, many of whom didn't go to school.2:08
Instead, they looked after their younger brothers and sisters or even worked.2:17
In Victorian Britain, children as young as 3 or 4 years of age Worked up to 16 hours a day in coal mines, in cotton mills and as chimney sweeps.2:23
The father of the house often worked in a factory, while the mother was responsible for all the household chores.2:37
For entertainment, working class families went to parks, cheap music halls or to gardens which had fairgrounds, sports matches and fireworks displays.2:45
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