Queen Victoria education project

Queen Victoria: an education resource from the Royal Archives
Queen Victoria
The Royal Archives holds a wealth of material relating to Queen Victoria's life and reign and this online resource makes some of these documents available for use by primary school teachers and students. The sources selected from the Royal Archives include extracts from Queen Victoria's journal, a report on her schoolwork from her childhood as a young Princess and bills for clothes and toys bought for the Royal children. All the sources include information about the archival item, transcripts where necessary and relevant questions and tasks.
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