One of a series of Scottish history books specifically designed to meet the requirements of the 5-14 curriculum in History, this text enables students to become familiar with a range of sources of evidence, and the concepts of change, continuity, cause and effect. It seeks to encourage an understanding of time and sequence, and an appreciation of heritage and the influence of the past on the present. This work focuses on a key area of Scotland's past and explains its importance, also setting events in the wider context of Victorian times.

 

 

This book is part of a book series called Understanding People in the Past .

There are 48 pages in this book.

It is aimed at Young Adult readers. The term Young Adult (YA) is used for books which have the following characteristics: (1) aimed at ages 12-18 years, US grades 7-12, UK school years 8-15, (2) around 50-75k words long, (3) main character is aged 12-18 years, (4) topics include self-reflection, internal conflict vs external, analyzing life and its meaning, (5) point of view is often in the first person, and (6) swearing, violence, romance and sexuality are allowed.

This book was published in 1996 by Hodder Arnold .

This book has the following chapters: Explore your area; the Queen's Scotland; at home - inside a wealthy home, changing places, changing times, growing up; at work - travel back in time, working the land, a living from the sea, which job will you choose?, at school; spare time - sport, going out, a greah exhibition; travel - the railways, a disaster, going to live abroad; in trouble - poverty, when the potato crop failed, in the Highlands; changing times - why did the Church split?, equality for women?.