Examples of activities that could be used to model a local history project in your area.
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19th century mining disaster
What happened at the Trimdon Grange Mining Disaster?
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Chertsey
What was Chertsey like in the Middle Ages?
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Discover the Dissolution
How did the Dissolution change my local area?
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Great Fire of London: how London changed
What happened?
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Native North Americans
What was early contact like between English colonists and Native Americans?
Samuel Pepys
What does his will reveal?
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Selling the Victorians
Victorians for sale! Has advertising changed from Victorian times?
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Significant Places
What's in a place?
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The Boxers of Whitechapel
What do the documents reveal about the inhabitants?
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Trimdon
What was it like living in a late 19th century mining town?
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Victorian family history
How can we find out about the life of a Victorian child?
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Victorian lives
How was life different in Victorian times?
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Whitechapel
How can we find out about what Whitechapel was like in 1888?
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Workhouse Voices
What did paupers say about the Poor Law?