History in the National Curriculum requires that pupils have opportunities to learn about the past from a range of historical sources including documents and printed sources, artefacts, pictures and photographs, music, buildings and sites and computer based material.

This CD ROM and pack of materials has been put together to help teachers achieve this in an exciting way, using a computer-based system to introduce a variety of historical sources within the framework of a study of Victorian Britain.

By clicking parts of the screen children will be given information or asked questions which will lead them to investigate contemporary historical evidence.

What's in the Pack

• A CD ROM containing an interactive investigation of a 19th century market town based on an etching of Chipping Norton in Oxfordshire.

Photocopies of the following:

• A coloured print of Chipping Norton Market Place in 1861 from a lithograph published in 1861 by William Frederick Austin of Oxford.
• A key to the same print showing the names of the occupants of the buildings to assist in identifying households included in the Census Returns.
• An extract from Dutton, Allen & Co. Commercial Directory of Oxfordshire and Berkshire from 1863 showing the entry for Chipping Norton.
• A modern photograph of Chipping Norton Market Place.
• A contemporary map of Oxfordshire showing Chipping Norton, Cornwell and the route from Chipping Norton to Oxford. This is from Murray's map of the county published about 1830.
• Part of a contemporary postcard view of Chipping Norton Town Hall, c. 1850.
• Two extracts from Jackson's Oxford Journal, 1861 and an extract from the Oxfordshire Weekly News, July 1869.
• A transcript of an extract from An Interview with Mr. Burden remembering life in Chipping Norton in about 1900. The interview was recorded in 1974.

• Several A3 copies of extracts from the Census Return for 1861 with transcriptions for the Upper and Lower Side, High Street and part of Cornwell, Oxfordshire.
  

Use of this pack and these materials will provide pupils with an alternative and highly motivating means of investigating original source materials concerned with Victorian Britain.

A Victorian Market Place can be ordered from:

The ICT Advisory Team
Cricket Road Centre
Cricket Road,
Oxford OX4 3DW

Tel: 01865-428034 Fax: 01965-428030

E-mail: ais.ict.education@oxfordshire.gov.uk

The CD ROM and pack of materials costs £45 for a site licence and is easily installed on standalone or networked computers running Windows 95 or later.