Our ‘Curriculum Topics’ use the phrasing of the National Curriculum to help you find content that can be used to teach each individual module.
Our taught sessions and online resources cover a variety of time periods and places. Many contain structured investigations for use directly in the classroom. Others are more suited for research and preparation. They all allow access into our unique collections.
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1833 Factory Act
Did it solve the problems of children in factories?
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1919 race riots
How significant a factor was race in the riots of 1919?
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19th century mining disaster
What happened at the Trimdon Grange Mining Disaster?
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A ‘right’ to relief?
In what ways did paupers hold the Poor Law to account?
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American Revolution: Early conflicts
Why did war break out between American colonists and British forces during 1775-6?
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Attlee’s Britain 1945-1951
Planning for the future?
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Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement
From Conflict to Peace - 25 Years On
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Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement 1998 Themed Collection
What do the documents reveal about its significance?
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BGFA25 – Discussion Activity
From Conflict to Peace - 25 Years On
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Bound for Britain
Experiences of immigration to the UK
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Capturing our Collections
Artworks inspired by documents found in The National Archives
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Cats and mice
What tactics were used by suffragettes, police and government?
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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 on File
Why did the Cold War emerge?
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Coping with Cholera
How did the authorities react in 19th century?
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Crime and Punishment: Robert Peel
How was law enforcement changed by Sir Robert Peel’s new Metropolitan Police Force?
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Criminal petitions
What do they reveal about the justice system?
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Discover the Dissolution
How did the Dissolution change my local area?
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Dr James Barry
Why was he significant in 19th century medicine?
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Early Modern witch trials
Who was accused?
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Florence Nightingale
Why do we remember her?
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Foundling Hospital
What were conditions like for children in the care of the Foundling Hospital?
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From Outbreak to Archive: Tales of Public Health
What do the documents reveal about how government and society dealt with public health in the past?
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Glorious Revolution
How did these events change the British Monarchy?
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Great Fire of London: how London changed
What happened?
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Have we underestimated the Victorian Poor?
To what extent did the Victorian Poor accept their fate in the workhouse?
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Holding History
What is 'The National Archives'?
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How did the government respond to a mass protest at ‘Peterloo’ in 1819?
Political reform in 19th century Britain
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Jacobite propaganda
What was the point of Jacobite propaganda?
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Mangrove Nine protest
What does this reveal about police brutality and racism in '70s Britain?
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May Fourth Movement 1919
Why did the Paris Peace Conference lead to a mass protest movement in China?
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Mental Health on Record
What do the documents reveal about the understanding of mental health in the past?
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Past pleasures
How did the Victorians have fun?
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Protest and Democracy 1816 to 1818, part 1
Was this the start of mass politics in Britain?
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Protesting against the New Poor Law
What can archival material tell us about protest?
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Russia in Revolution
How did witnesses of the Russian Revolutionary period portray these events to the British government?
Samuel Pepys
What does his will reveal?
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Sixties Britain
A social and cultural revolution?
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Suffragettes ‘in Trousers’
How did men support votes for women?
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Suffragettes through government eyes
What do government records reveal about the suffrage movement?
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Terfysg Beca (Cymraeg/Welsh)
Beth a ddigwyddodd yn ystod
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The Chinese Civil War
Why did the fighting between the Kuomintang and Chinese Communist Party happen?
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The Corn Laws
What was the impact of the 1815 Corn Laws in Britain?
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The Home Front
How did people prepare for the war at home?
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Thirties Britain
The depressed decade?
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Victorian Health Reform
How did the Victorians view compulsory vaccination?
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Victorian Industrial Towns
What made them unhealthy?
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What caused the 1832 Great Reform Act?
Political and social reform in 19th century Britain
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What caused the ‘Swing Riots’ in the 1830s?
Political and social reform in 19th century Britain
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What methods did the Suffragettes use to gain the vote?
Political reform in 20th century Britain
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What was Chartism?
Political and social reform in 19th century Britain
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What was the significance of the Match Girls’ Strike in 1888?
Political and social reform in 19th century Britain
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Whitechapel
How can we find out about what Whitechapel was like in 1888?
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Why did the Luddites protest?
Political reform in 19th century Britain
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Why was radical writer Thomas Paine significant?
Political and social reform in 18th century Britain
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Women and the English Civil Wars
How did these conflicts affect their lives?
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Workhouse Voices
What did paupers say about the Poor Law?
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Workhouse Voices Creative Writing
Stories inspired by letters from the past
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Workhouse Women
How were women treated in the Victorian workhouse?