I picked this up after inspiration from our curriculum design lecture where we were shown historical everyday life portraits.

If I think about history and the passing of time too hard I get a headache, but this collection of photography from the late 1800s to 1970 was still so nice to look through. Seeing how the fashion changes, how the older photos are blurred from children's movement, the differences in economic circumstances, and how some of the photos could easily be assumed as more recently taken!

I would love to use some of these with children in a classroom: I think it's much more useful to have children see other children, allowing them to connect, relate and compare easier.

I especially love comparing them to current day photos - maybe supplying photos of the same place to compare between, or getting children to take their own recreations of the photos with modern variations.