Explore ideas of Victorian masculinity through a selection of films showing men at work and at play. These three lessons plans combine watching and discussing several short silent films as context for studying Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol (1843).
Lesson resources
Films
Workforce of Scott & Co. Shipyard, Greenock (1901)
Unruly shipworkers defy direction from Mitchell and Kenyon's showmen partners.
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Edwardian workers file out of a naval shipyard at Barrow-in-Furness.
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A policeman breaks up a gambling den, but is caught pocketing the proceeds.
Watch now on BFI PlayerRalph Pringle Interviewing Private Ward V.C. Hero in Leeds (1901)
An ordinary hero of the Boer War in a curious silent 'interview'.
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