Education sessions and resources

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?
Tags: empire-and-industry, history hook starter, ks1, ks2, ks3, lessons
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1834 Poor Law
What did people think of the new Poor Law?
Tags: empire-and-industry, ks1, ks2, ks3, lessons
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A Day at the Seaside
Tags: lessons, ks1, ks2, lesson send, victorians

Atlas of Illustrated Feelings
How are you feeling today?
Tags: ks1, ks2, time travel tv
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Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Histories
Tags: time travel tv, early-20th-century, early-modern, empire-and-industry, focussed topics, interwar, ks1, ks2, ks3, ks4, ks5, lessons, medieval, postwar, second-world-war, themed collections, victorians
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Captain Cook in Hawaii
What happened on his final voyage?
Tags: victorians, empire-and-industry, ks1, ks2, ks3, lessons

Craft Club – Christmas Cards
Festive pop-up cards
Tags: early-20th-century, ks1, ks2, time travel tv, victorians

Creating an Imaginary Archive
What would you collect?
Tags: ks1, ks2, time travel tv
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Currency converter: 1270–2017
Tags: early-20th-century, early-modern, empire-and-industry, focussed topics, interwar, ks1, ks2, ks3, ks4, ks5, medieval, postwar, second-world-war, victorians
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Domesday game
Tags: games, ks1, ks2, medieval

Festive greetings
Tags: ks1, ks2, ks3
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Florence Nightingale
Why do we remember her?
Tags: empire-and-industry, ks1, ks2, lessons, victorians
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Great Fire of London game
Tags: early-modern, games, ks1
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Great Fire of London: examine the evidence
How can we know what happened back in 1666?
Tags: early-modern, ks1, online workshops, workshops
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Great Fire of London: how London changed
What happened?
Tags: early-modern, ks1, ks2, ks3, lessons
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Great Plague of 1665-1666
How did London respond to it?
Tags: early-modern, ks1, ks2, ks3, lessons
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Henry VIII court rules
How did Henry VIII get up in the morning?
Tags: early-modern, ks1, ks3, ks4, lessons
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Henry’s royal rules (SEND)
What were the rules of daily life for a king in Tudor times?
Tags: early-modern, ks1, ks2, ks3, ks4, ks5, online workshops, workshop send
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Queen Anne
How can we find out about her?
Tags: early-modern, ks1, ks2, lessons

Samuel Pepys
What does his will reveal?
Tags: early-modern, ks1, ks2, ks3, lessons
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Significant Events
What happened then?
Tags: lessons, early-20th-century, early-modern, empire-and-industry, interwar, ks1, ks2, medieval, postwar, second-world-war, themed collections, victorians
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Significant People
Key Stage One Activity Book
Tags: victorians, early-modern, empire-and-industry, ks1, lessons
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Significant People
Who is who?
Tags: early-20th-century, early-modern, empire-and-industry, interwar, ks1, ks2, medieval, postwar, second-world-war, themed collections, victorians
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Significant Places
What's in a place?
Tags: victorians, early-20th-century, early-modern, empire-and-industry, interwar, ks1, ks2, themed collections, victorians
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Suffragettes ‘in Trousers’
How did men support votes for women?
Tags: victorians, early-20th-century, history hook starter, ks1, ks3, ks5, lessons
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Suffragettes on file
What did the struggle for the vote involve?
Tags: early-20th-century, ks1, ks3, ks5, themed collections, victorians
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The Great Seal
What can it tell us?
Tags: early-modern, ks1, ks2, ks4, lessons
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The King, the Crown and the Colonel
How did Thomas Blood try to steal the Crown Jewels in 1671?
Tags: early-modern, ks1, ks2, ks3, lessons

Time Travel Club Activities
Discovering The National Archives
Tags: early-20th-century, early-modern, focussed topics, ks1, ks2, victorians
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Travel smart through time (SEND)
How and why have people travelled around in the past and how have they done it safely?
Tags: early-20th-century, empire-and-industry, interwar, ks1, ks2, ks3, online workshops, postwar, second-world-war, victorians, workshop send
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Treasures
Tags: early-20th-century, early-modern, empire-and-industry, focussed topics, interwar, ks1, ks2, ks3, ks4, ks5, medieval, postwar, second-world-war, victorians
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Virtual classroom taster
Would you like to book a live virtual classroom taster session?
Tags: early-20th-century, early-modern, empire-and-industry, interwar, ks1, ks2, ks3, ks4, ks5, medieval, postwar, second-world-war, victorians, virtual classrooms
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Walter Tull
How can we use sources to find out about him?
Tags: virtual classrooms, early-20th-century, ks1, ks2, lessons
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Women’s Histories
Tags: lessons, early-20th-century, early-modern, empire-and-industry, focussed topics, interwar, ks1, ks2, ks3, ks4, ks5, lessons, medieval, postwar, second-world-war, themed collections, victorians
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World Through a Lens
Tags: focussed topics, ks1, ks2, ks3, ks4, ks5