1. Name:………………………………………………………….
Teacher:……………………………………………………….
Date Task 1 Issued:……Date to be completed by…….
Date Task 2 Issued:……Date to be completed by…….
Level 5 and 6
Key Stage 3-Year 8
History Homework Booklet
Term 6:Living conditions during the Industrial
Revolution
Your Task:
Life in during the Industrial Revolution was very unpleasant in the towns and
cities that grew rapidly. The health and well-being of ordinary men, women
and children was in a pretty poor state in the early 1800s. The national
average age of death for the working British man was bout 30 – that’s right,
just 30 years of age! In some places like Liverpool, it was 15. One in every five
children died before their first birthday and one in every three died before
their fifth birthday. One of the reasons for this was because the water was so
dirty. This created a disease called cholera and it meant that people were
dying because they were drinking dirty water. Your task is to investigate
sources to find out more information about what the cholera epidemic was
and what caused it.
Historians use sources to find out information out about the past. When
historians look at sources they have to think carefully about how useful the
sources are and how they reliable they are. This means they have to think
about the following when they are deciding how trustworthy a source is:
• Who wrote it?
• What is it?
• When was it written? Were they there?
• Why was it written? Are they trying to
record information or are they just
recoding what actually happened for their
own records/diary?
• Can you trust what is said or does the
person have a reason to lie about events?

2. A cartoon drawn in the
1850s when the most
people were dying during
a cholera epidemic (from
Punch Magazine)
Source 1
1.) What can you see in Source 1?
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2.) What do you think Source 1 is trying to say about water in the 1850s? EXPLAIN
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Task 1

3. 3.Is Henry Mayhew’s account a primary or secondary source?……………….…………
4. Why is Mayhew so horrified by what he sees?………………………………………………
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5. What do you think will happen to the boys who wash in the river and why do
you think this?
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6. How useful is Henry Meyhew’s account? REMEMBER TO COVER ALL OF THE
POINTS ON THE FRONT OF THIS BOOKLET
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Source 2
Henry Mayhew, ‘Journeys through London’ a book written to tell people about
what he saw in London; 1849
“As we gazed in horror, we saw drains and sewers emptying their filthy contents
into the river; we saw a whole row of doorless privies (toilets) in the open road,
shared by both men and women. Built over the river; we heard bucket after
bucket of filth splash into the river, and homeless boys bathing in it.”
Task 2

4. Key Stage 3 History Homework
Term 3- The English Civil War
Name:
These grades are
recorded in GO.
Current Grade:
Poor/ Satisfactory/ Good/ Excellent
What you did well:
You have made excellent judgements
using sources and have explained
them well.
You have made excellent judgements
using sources.
You make good judgements about
how useful the source is.
You have picked out good information
from sources.
You have picked out some information
from sources.
Your spelling, punctuation, and
grammar in this work is excellent.
Your work is very well presented.
Your work shows excellent effort.
Your work shows some good effort.
Targets to improve further:
You need to give more detail when
explaining what you have found out
from the sources.
You need to give evidence from the
source to support your points.
You need to cover more points to
explain how useful a source is.
You need to think about what the
source tells you but does not actually
say.
You need to explain the judgements
that you make from sources.
You need to read sources more
carefully.
Take more care with your spelling,
punctuation and grammar.
Take more care with the presentation
of your work.
Your work shows it would benefit
from more effort.
Student Response
Note here anything you are not sure about:
Miss Limm