![]() Do not dismiss a photograph if it seems posed or if the caption has been changed or appears unlikely from your background knowledge. This information can be gained from asking the following questions and be prepared to research further if necessary. It is important to discuss with them the importance the background circumstances that produced it. Photographs are a great way to introduce students to historical sources. Why are people shown the way they are? Children could write about or draw their own family portrait. The lesson could be extended to work with decoding other photographs or portraits, for example the photograph in the lesson on 19th people also shown in related resources. Students can compare this to the photograph in this lesson. In our census detective lesson there is a copy of Queen Victoria’s census in 1851. This lesson uses two photographs to explore Queen Victoria’s relationship with her family. Only with the invention of simple hand held cameras in the early 1900s could ordinary people take their own ‘snaps’. Cameras were large and heavy and had long exposure times (the time the film had to be exposed to light) meaning that people had to stay very still throughout a session with a professional photographer. Even though photography was now familiar it was still a slow process. Successful photographic experiments had first been carried out in the 1820s but the ability to photograph people did not arrive until the work of Louis Daguerre and Henry Fox Talbot in the 1830s. She could not even face the wedding reception without Albert, so she had lunch alone.īy the 1860s family photographs had become quite common in Victorian England. Clearly Queen Victoria was in no mood for celebrations. The wedding of Prince Edward to Princess Alexandra of Denmark took place two years after the death of Prince Albert. She wore black for the rest of her life and for many years locked herself away from the public. ![]() In 1861 Queen Victoria’s husband Albert died. Victoria and Albert had nine children:īoth Victoria and Albert spent a lot of time with their children at Balmoral in Scotland and Osborne House on the Isle of Wight. She did much to please her husband, giving him the title ‘Prince Consort’ in 1857 and letting him take some responsibility in the running of the country. Queen Victoria was married to Albert for nearly 21 years and was very much in love with him.
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