Workshops

We offer a wide range of workshops at The National Archives in Kew in our purpose-built classroom, giving groups an exciting opportunity to work directly with real documents.

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4099 is my name (SEND)

How can we share the experiences of someone who lived in the past?
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Black Victorians

How much can documents reveal about the lives of Black people in Victorian Britain?
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Choosing for the Archives (SEND)

How can we find out about someone from the past, using documents, images and objects?
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Civil rights and racial segregation

What was the response to racial segregation in the US?
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Cold War

How concerned were the British in the early stages of the Cold War?
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Crisis in the reign of Mary I

How far can Mary I’s reign be considered a time of crisis?
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Domesday Book: medieval treasure

What can we learn about people’s lives in 1086?
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Enquiring into Elizabeth

What can we learn about Elizabeth I’s ruling style from her letters and speeches?
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Four days’ hard labour

What was life like for a Victorian child criminal?
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Great Escapes: Remarkable Second World War Captives

What can documents reveal about how people held captive ‘escaped’ during the Second World War?
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Henry VIII: image of a king

Was appearance everything for a ruler in the 16th century?
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Hidden Love: LGBTQ+ lives in the 1920s and 1930s

What can our documents reveal about LGBTQ+ lives in the 1920 and 30s?
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Introduction to document research

What can archives reveal about the past and how history is constructed?
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Mapping London

How and why does an area change over time?
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Medicine on the Western Front

How can we find out about medical treatment in the First World War?
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Migrants to Britain

What can government documents reveal about the experience of Indian seafarers?
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Propaganda: the art of persuasion

How did the British government encourage people to support the war?
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Suffragettes through government eyes

What do government records reveal about the suffrage movement?
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The Holocaust

What can British government documents tell us about what happened in the Holocaust?
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The Mangrove Nine

How much can documents from The National Archives reveal about the Mangrove Nine?
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Tudor rebellions

How seriously did they challenge the authority of the crown?
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Whitechapel

How can we find out about what Whitechapel was like in 1888?