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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19th century mining disaster
What happened at the Trimdon Grange Mining Disaster?
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4099 is my name (SEND)
How can we share the experiences of someone who lived in the past?
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A ‘right’ to relief?
In what ways did paupers hold the Poor Law to account?
A Great Christmas Inconvenience
What can we learn from the documents about how some Victorians celebrated Christmas?
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All on board!
What can we learn from old board games?
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Black Victorians
How much can documents reveal about the lives of Black people in Victorian Britain?
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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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Coping with Cholera
How did the authorities react in 19th century?
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Coronations: Ceremony and Change
How can we find out about Coronations in the past? How far have Coronations changed over time?
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Criminal petitions
What do they reveal about the justice system?
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Dr James Barry
Why was he significant in 19th century medicine?
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Food Glorious Food
What was food like for a child in the Victorian workhouse?
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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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Have we underestimated the Victorian Poor?
To what extent did the Victorian Poor accept their fate in the workhouse?
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Health and the Poor Law
To what degree did the Poor Law make an important contribution to Public Health?
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Holding History
What is 'The National Archives'?
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LGBTQ+ Rights in Britain
How have changes in laws and attitudes affected LGBTQ+ people in Britain?
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Past pleasures
How did the Victorians have fun?
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People – GCSE English Language
Using images for descriptive and narrative writing
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Places – GCSE English Language
Using images for descriptive and narrative writing
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Protesting against the New Poor Law
What can archival material tell us about protest?
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Punishment in the workhouse – Lesson One
What can ‘pauper voices’ reveal about punishments for workhouse children?
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Punishment in the workhouse – Lesson Two
What can ‘pauper voices’ reveal about attitudes towards punishments in the workhouse?
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Rob Roy
A Victorian railway accident
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Selling the Victorians
Victorians for sale! Has advertising changed from Victorian times?
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The Boxers of Whitechapel
What do the documents reveal about the inhabitants?
Time Travel Club Activities
Discovering The National Archives
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Trimdon
What was it like living in a late 19th century mining town?
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Victorian children in trouble with the law
Did the punishment fit the crime?
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Victorian family history
How can we find out about the life of a Victorian child?
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Victorian Food and Drink
What do old adverts reveal?
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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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Victorian lives
How was life different in Victorian times?
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Victorian Railways
Did they create more crime?
Victorians
Affordable holidays for all
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What caused the 1832 Great Reform Act?
Political and social reform in 19th century Britain
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What is a Jubilee?
What can we find out about Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee?
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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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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?