Rabbit Hunting in the 1920's
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Reconstruction from 1927 showing unemployed miners going rabbit hunting for food.
Scene from a BBC Wales history reality series showing a group of unemployed and hungry coal miners in 1927 going rabbit hunting with a ferret - a common activity at the time as a way for out of work men to put food on the table for their families.
From:
Coal House Omnibus 2
First broadcast
:
04 November 2007
Teachers' notes
Age Group : 7-9
Subject : History
Topic : Industrial Wales and Britain
Keywords : Coal industry
Notes : Good clip to show the hardships of life for Welsh working class familes in the 1920's. Can use to show similiarities and differences between 1920's life and other historical periods in Wales. For further study, see Coal House
