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?
20sStreets – Teacher’s Notes
What can archives reveal about people’s lives in the 1920s?
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Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement
From Conflict to Peace - 25 Years On
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BGFA25 – Discussion Activity
From Conflict to Peace - 25 Years On
Case Study A – Tower Hamlets
101 Grove Road
Case Study B – Tower Hamlets
68 Grove Road
Case Study C – Wakefield
24 Thornes Lane
Case Study D – Wakefield
68 Thornes Lane Wharf
Case Study E – Accrington
38 Park Road
Case Study F – Accrington
68 Park Road
Case Study G – Falmouth
3 Lister Street
Case Study H – Falmouth
42 Lister Street
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Chertsey
What was Chertsey like in the Middle Ages?
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Children’s Clothing in the Workhouse
What do the letters tell us about pauper children's clothing in the workhouse?
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Discover the Dissolution
How did the Dissolution change my local area?
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Going to School in the Workhouse
How was school for pauper children different, and what was the same?
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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?