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Resources and Workshops
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What roles did women play in Medieval times?
An open database of letters from paupers, the wider poor and their advocates from 1834–1900.
Lesson packs by teachers working with letters in Voices of the Victorian Poor.
Our Film of the Month from Pathé shows a factory nursery in Liverpool in 1965.
Our Document of the Month features a document with medieval women's seals.
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Our sessions are delivered by a team of education officers.
Book a workshop taught onsite at The National Archives is Kew.
Book an online workshop taught in your classroom.
Use original documents to develop your own questions and lines of historical enquiry.
Our focused topics cover a huge variety of times and places.
Investigations mapped to the curriculum that can be covered in a single period.