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 .

This book is aimed at children in secondary school.

There are 48 pages in this book. This book was published 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?.