Travel through time with our family activities!
Our ‘Time Travel Club’ family events are a great way for you and your children to learn and have fun.
From the Tudors to Second World War spies, find out about the fascinating and unique stories that make up the history of our nation. Interact with astonishing original records from our collection. And enjoy creative craft activities.
Join Time Travel Tots for sensory storytelling adventures for pre-schoolers and their carers.
- Introduction
- Alice (Part One)
- Alice (Part Two)
- Pirates in the arrrchives (Part One)
- Pirates in the arrrchives (Part Two)
- Fairytales (Part One)
- Fairytales (Part Two)
- Digging for Victory
- Beautiful butterflies
- Seasons – Spring and Summer
- Seasons – Autumn and Winter
- Safari Animals
- Mystical Creatures
- Rat Story
The National archives are inviting children and families across the country to participate in Time Travel TV! We have a whole range of videos and activities to bring the archives to your armchair. You will find out about the wonderful treasures that we hold and have the opportunity to do a creative themed craft based on the video you have watched.
- A suffragette and the census
- Introduction
- Tudors: Image of a King
- Fun in the Files
- Disaster at Sea
- Propaganda
- Dear Herbert
- All Work and No Play
- Census Detectives
- Animals in the Archives
- Curiosities
- Archives Ahoy!
- Signed, Sealed, Delivered
- Living under canvas
- Codes and Secret Messages
- Archaeology in the Archives
- The Beautiful Game
- A Significant Person
- Holidays are Here!
Welcome to the Time Travel Club’s activities for British Science Week; a nationwide celebration of science, engineering and maths that is taking place between 5-14 March 2021! When people think about science, an archive probably isn’t the first thing that comes to mind but behind the scenes we have a team of specialist scientists and conservators whose job it is to look after the materials which make up archive collection, for example parchment, paper and ink.
Welcome to the Time Travel Club’s special activities for The Big Draw The theme of this year’s festival is ‘Climate of Change’: In 2020 The Big Green Draw Festival #ClimateOfChange focuses on the relationship between people and our living environments and ecosystems; highlighting how we live today and the ways in which we do and do not harmonise with nature.