History – Georgian England

Year 5/6 Autumn Cycle A

All children - regardless of ability or background - have equal access to an exciting, context based history curriculum which provides an understanding
of chronology, knowledge of significant individuals and events, and ensures that all children can form and justify historical opinions.

How were the lives of rich and poor people different in the Georgian era?

How do previous questions/topics link to Where does it fit in?

the current topic?
- How was the life during the Stuart Period
different to that of the Georgian Period?
- What was the difference in the way the
kings of the Georgian Period ruled
compared to the Stuarts?

Key Knowledge Key Vocabulary

- The Georgian Period of British history takes its name from Someone who is related to the Royal House of
Hanoverian
the first four Hanoverian kings of Great Britain, all named Hanover.
George: George I, George II, George III and George IV. To develop industry, the making of products
Industrialise
- Georgian architecutre was marked by symmerty and from raw materials in factories.
proportion based on classical architecture of Greece and
Wealthy Someone who is rich.
Rome.
- The ‘Seven Years' War. The war was primarily between Architecture Design and construct of buildings.
Britain, Spain, and France. Britain won the war.
-Britain began to industrialise in the 1700s. In 1785 Edmund Workhouses Where poor relief was offered to the needy,
Cartwright patented the power loom, improving the weaving people lived here.
process. Monarch Sovereign head of state, King/Queen.
- Jane Austen and Mary Shelley began writing literature in the
Georgian Era. Power A loom powered by water, steam or electricity
-There was a clear difference in social class. The poor lived a Loom rather than by hand.
very simple life, whereas the wealthy lived a much grander life Poor Law Charitable relief for the needy.
and enjoyed piped water into their houses for the first time
ever. Execution Carrying out a sentence of death on a
- Most punishments during the 18th-century were held in condemned person.
public. Executions were elaborate and shocking affairs.

1820 – George III dies and

1714 - George I 1727 - George I dies on a 1763 – Britain wins the Timeline George IV becomes King.
inherits the throne, visit to Hanover, and his Seven Years’ War. 1811 – Jane Austen releases
George IV’s ill treatment of
son, George II Prince of her first novel ‘Sense and
beginning of the his wife, make him an
Wales, inherits the throne. Sensibility’.
Georgian Period. unpopular ruler
.

1760 – George II dies 1768 – George III 1801 – 1815 – Britain wins the 1830 -George IV dies
1721 - Robert founds the Royal and the Georgian Era
and his grandson George The Act of Union- Napoleonic Wars against
Walpole becomes Academy of Arts. ends. His brother
III takes the throne. England, Scotland and France. The victory
Britain’s first Prime William IV inherits the
Ireland are united. reaffirms Britain’s
Minister. throne.
dominance

George I George II George III George IV William IV

1660 -1727 1683-1760 1738-1820 1762-1830 1830-1837

First British Monarch of Became King when his Founder of the Royal Famous for his Royal The last king of Britain's
the House of Hanover father died Academy of Arts Pavilion in Brighton House of Hanover