View Teaching Resources

Privies, Pests and Pollution: Public health in Victorian towns

£9.95 plus p&p

Photographs, engravings and lurid descriptions of horrific living conditions are included in this pack.  The materials are structured so that each unit deals with a specific aspect of public health, ranging from polluted water and filthy privies through to food adulteration and overcrowding.  Children are given enough information to form a clear impression of why it was dangerous to live in Victorian times.  NC Study unit 3a: Victorian Britain D.

back to teaching resources

© Copyright 2008 Thackray Museum.

Beckett Street, Leeds, LS9 7LN