Focussed topics

Our focussed topics cover a huge variety of times and places. Many contain structured investigations for use directly in the classroom. Some are more useful for research and preparation but what they all have in common are the access they allow to our unique collections.

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Abolition of slavery
Tags: empire-and-industry, focussed topics, ks3, ks4
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Behind the Wire: 20th Century Prisoner of War camps
Tags: focussed topics, ks3, ks4, ks5, second-world-war
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Black presence
Tags: early-modern, empire-and-industry, focussed topics, ks3, ks4
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Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Histories
Tags: ks4, 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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Britain 1906-1918
Tags: early-20th-century, focussed topics, ks2, ks3, ks4, ks5
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British Battles
Tags: focussed topics, ks3, ks4, postwar, second-world-war, victorians
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British Empire
Tags: early-20th-century, early-modern, empire-and-industry, focussed topics, interwar, ks3, ks4, postwar, victorians
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Cabinet Papers
Tags: early-20th-century, focussed topics, interwar, ks4, ks5, postwar, second-world-war
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Cardinal Wolsey
Tags: early-modern, focussed topics, ks3, ks4
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Caribbean histories revealed
Tags: early-20th-century, early-modern, empire-and-industry, focussed topics, ks3, ks4
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Chaucer’s London
Tags: focussed topics, ks2, ks3, ks4, medieval
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Chronicles of the Dissolution
Tags: medieval, early-modern, focussed topics, ks3, ks4, ks5
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Citizenship
Tags: early-20th-century, early-modern, empire-and-industry, focussed topics, interwar, ks3, ks4, medieval, postwar, victorians
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Civil War
Tags: early-modern, focussed topics, ks3, ks4, ks5
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Cold War
Tags: focussed topics, interwar, ks3, ks4, ks5, postwar, second-world-war
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Crime and punishment
Tags: early-20th-century, early-modern, empire-and-industry, focussed topics, interwar, ks2, ks3, ks4, ks5, medieval, postwar, second-world-war, victorians
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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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Dambusters
Tags: focussed topics, ks3, ks4, second-world-war
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Domesday: Britain’s finest treasure
Tags: focussed topics, ks3, medieval
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Focus on Film
Tags: early-20th-century, focussed topics, interwar, ks2, ks3, ks4, ks5, postwar, second-world-war
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Focus on Isaac Rosenberg
Tags: early-20th-century, focussed topics, ks3, ks4
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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?
Tags: early-20th-century, early-modern, empire-and-industry, focussed topics, interwar, ks3, ks4, ks5, lessons, second-world-war
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Great War 1914-1918
Tags: early-20th-century, focussed topics, ks3, ks4
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Henry VIII
Tags: early-modern, focussed topics, ks2, ks3, ks4
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Home Front 1939-1945
Tags: focussed topics, ks2, ks3, second-world-war
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Home Front 1939-1945 film sources
Tags: second-world-war, focussed topics, ks4, ks5, second-world-war
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Human rights
Tags: early-20th-century, early-modern, empire-and-industry, focussed topics, interwar, ks3, ks4, medieval, second-world-war, victorians
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Hunting for History
Tags: early-modern, empire-and-industry, focussed topics, ks3, medieval, postwar, second-world-war
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Leaders and Controversies
Tags: focussed topics, interwar, ks3, ks4, ks5, postwar, second-world-war
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LGBTQ+ history in the archives
Tags: focussed topics, interwar, ks3, ks4, ks5, lgbtq+ resources
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Magna Carta
Tags: focussed topics, ks3, ks4, ks5, medieval
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Mapping Caribbean Migration
Tags: focussed topics, ks1, ks2, ks3, ks4, ks5, postwar
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Moving Here
Tags: early-20th-century, empire-and-industry, focussed topics, ks2, ks3, ks4, ks5, postwar, second-world-war, victorians
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Nelson, Trafalgar, and those who served
Tags: empire-and-industry, focussed topics, ks2, ks3
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Palaeography
Tags: early-modern, empire-and-industry, focussed topics, ks3, ks4, ks5
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Power, politics and protest
Tags: empire-and-industry, focussed topics, ks3, ks4, ks5, victorians
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Prisoner 4099
Tags: focussed topics, ks2, ks3, ks4, victorians
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Public Information Films
Tags: focussed topics, ks2, ks3, ks4, ks5, postwar
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Secrets and spies
Tags: early-modern, empire-and-industry, focussed topics, ks3, ks4, second-world-war
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Somme Tales
Tags: second-world-war, early-20th-century, focussed topics, ks3, ks4, ks5
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Spanish Louisiana
Tags: early-modern, empire-and-industry, focussed topics, ks3, ks4
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St Peter’s Field
Tags: empire-and-industry, focussed topics, ks3, ks4
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Tally Sticks
Tags: early-modern, focussed topics, ks2, ks3, ks4, medieval
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The art of war
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The National Health Service
Tags: focussed topics, ks2, ks3, ks4, ks5, postwar, second-world-war

Time Travel Club Activities
Discovering The National Archives
Tags: early-20th-century, early-modern, focussed topics, ks1, ks2, victorians
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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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Tudor Hackney
Tags: early-modern, focussed topics, ks2, ks3
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Uniting the Kingdoms?
Tags: early-modern, focussed topics, ks2, ks3, medieval
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Victorian Britain
Tags: focussed topics, ks2, ks3, ks4, victorians
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Victorian Child Criminals
Tags: empire-and-industry, focussed topics, ks2, ks3, ks4, victorians
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Women in Uniform
Tags: early-20th-century, focussed topics, ks3, ks4, second-world-war, victorians
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Women’s Histories
Tags: victorians, 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
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World War II
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