Hodder Education History catalogue 2024 - Catalog - Page 18
UNDERSTANDING HISTORY
Look inside
1D
Early Modern Britain
(1450–1750)
On these two pages you will find out about sanitation during the Early
Modern period (1450–1750). There were some changes, but also some
continuities (which means things staying the same) from the Middle Ages.
Task
1 Make a summary card
like this one:
Early Modern Britain
Changes
Continuities
More people and bigger towns
In the Early Modern period, Britain’s population increased and more
people moved from rural areas to the towns. The towns were under pressure.
Complete the columns as
you read.
K
Part of the oldest
surviving map of
London, made in 1561
Reflect
This is a detail from a map
of London, made in 1561.
2 How does the map
show that London
was overcrowded in
the sixteenth century?
Obtaining clean water
In the countryside, people continued to carry
water from streams, springs or wells. In towns,
some people were lucky enough to have a
well in their garden or yard. But most people
had to obtain water in other ways.
1 Collecting water from a conduit. Some
town councils paid for new conduits to
carry water into the towns. People helped
themselves to the water free of charge.
2 Buying water from a water seller. Water
sellers like the one on the right collected
water from conduits in barrels. People paid
water sellers to bring water to their homes.
3 Paying for water to be piped to their
houses. In some towns, water companies
began to build water conduits that carried water
over many miles into towns. People could pay for
the water company to pipe water to their house.
3 Find the women
drying washing on
Moor Field. Why do
you think they dried
the washing like this?
Reflect
4 Which of these ways
of obtaining water
were continuities from
the Middle Ages?
5 Which way of
obtaining water was
new?
L
A seventeenth-century
illustration of a London
water seller
8
Sample pages from the Understanding History: KS3 Student Book
16
READY TO ORDER?
hoddereducation ⸀com/understanding-history-ks3
education@hachette ⸀co ⸀uk