Welcome

Take a break from your research and send some e-cards to friends or have fun doing our online jigsaw puzzles.

Send an e-card

Send a friend one of our original e-cards - choose from beautiful illustrations, quirky artwork, amusing cartoons and more in this collection from our image library archive.
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Calculate your currency

Try our online currency converter and find out how much you can buy in today's prices.

Ducking stool

Save a 17th century woman from the ducking stool by correctly transcribing a set of latin words.
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Do a jigsaw puzzle

Try your hand at one of our online jigsaw puzzles. They feature images from our collections and you can set the difficulty and have some fun.
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For kids of all ages

Tudor joust

Choose your horse, select your armour, and ride into combat in the joust.

Start jousting!

The train

Use your brainpower to get to the seaside by steam train.

Test your knowledge

Tudor Hackney virtual world

See inside the town of Hackney, as it was hundreds of years ago.

Visit Tudor Hackney

Codemaster

Send and receive coded messages with a real cipher used by French spies.

Send coded messages

It's World War Two: How would you cope?

To play these games, follow the link and then click on the Activity button.

Bomb Shelter Go

Shopping in war-time Go

Escape from the Blitz Go