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All pals together
Would you like to meet our tommy, Henry Fairhurst?
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Black Victorians
How much can documents reveal about the lives of Black people in Victorian Britain?
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Cold War
How concerned were the British in the early stages of the Cold War?
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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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Crisis in the reign of Mary I
How far can Mary I’s reign be considered a time of crisis?
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Domesday Book: medieval treasure
What can we learn about people’s lives in 1086?
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Enquiring into Elizabeth
What can we learn about Elizabeth I’s ruling style from her letters and speeches?
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Four days’ hard labour
What was life like for a Victorian child criminal?
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From the Front
How typical was Albert Edwin Rippington’s experience of war?
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Great Fire of London: examine the evidence
How can we know what happened back in 1666?
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Henry VIII: image of a king
Was appearance everything for a ruler in the 16th century?
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Henry’s royal rules (SEND)
What were the rules of daily life for a king in Tudor times?
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Hidden Love: LGBTQ+ lives in the 1920s and 1930s
What can our documents reveal about LGBTQ+ lives in the 1920 and 30s?
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Living under canvas: Child refugee stories
What can we learn from documents about the experiences of Basque child refugees?
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Medicine on the Western Front
How can we find out about medical treatment in the First World War?
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Migrants to Britain
What can government documents reveal about the experience of Indian seafarers?
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Propaganda: the art of persuasion
How did the British government encourage people to support the war?
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Resistance and Rebellion in the Caribbean
How did enslaved people resist?
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Significant Women
What can documents tell us about significant women’s lives?
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The Mangrove Nine
How much can documents from The National Archives reveal about the Mangrove Nine?
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The Sinking of the Titanic
Why were so many lives lost in the disaster?
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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?
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Treasures
What 'treasures' are there at The National Archives?
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Tudor rebellions
How seriously did they challenge the authority of the crown?
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What is history?
How do historians work out what happened in the past?
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Whitechapel
How can we find out about what Whitechapel was like in 1888?