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 * __Online Resources __**

When you have a lot of information to read, you need to learn how to skim read. Open this pdf to find some useful tips. 

**Websites** IL TIP! Be selective! Leave out the information that you don't need.

BBC Primary History, Victorian Britain; Children in factories @http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/victorian_britain/children_in_factories/ is a website especiallty designed for children and gives a good, brief insight into life in the factories in Victorian England. It appears to have good videos but unfortunately the links don't work.

Sparticus Educational ; Child Labour in Britain @http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/IRchild.htm is a website specifically designed for older children so the information may be difficult to sift through. However, it has a lot of information on lives of children working in the factories. You can click on the various links to get a good overall picture of what life was like for the children working under these dreadful conditions.

History Learning Site, Children in the Industrial Revolution Britain; @http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/children_industrial_revolution.htm has some very interesting excerpts from 'primary sources' You can read what life was like for these children directly from the people that lived there at that particular time in history. There is some advertising on the page so ignore it and focus on the task at hand!

Nettlesworth Primary School @http://www.nettlesworth.durham.sch.uk/timetrail/34771 is an excellent British resource that looks at all the different types of work that children were forced to perform in the Industrial Revolution. You will need to refer to your plan and think about what information you wish to include in your assignment and discard the information you don't need.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">BBC School Radio <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">You can listen to some audio of a young boy training to be a chimney sweep. There are other interesting audios on the same page. Enjoy! <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">@http://www.bbc.co.uk/schoolradio/subjects/history/victorians/chimneysweep/climbing_boys

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Child Labour in Factories during the Industrial Revolution, @http://www2.needham.k12.ma.us/nhs/cur/Baker_00/2002_p7/ak_p7/childlabor.html is a short page that looks at the treatment of British children who were forced to work in the factories.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The <span class="wiki_link_ext" style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">History Place ; <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">@http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/ is an American site that has lots of photos and information that give a good insight into the type of work young children had to do. It is set later than the 1830s but does show how long the practice of using child labour went on for.

Coal Mine article

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">This Youtube clip give a good insight to the way that young children were exploited.

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