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 prison ships
What do these documents reveal about attitudes to crime and punishment?
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1833 Factory Act
Did it solve the problems of children in factories?
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1834 Poor Law
What did people think of the new Poor Law?
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19th century mining disaster
What happened at the Trimdon Grange Mining Disaster?
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19th century people
What can we tell from this photograph?
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A medieval mystery
Can you decode the dark secrets of the cartoon above?
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A Victorian prison
Why were Victorian Prisons so tough?
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Adolf Hitler
Was Hitler a 'passionate lunatic'?
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All pals together
Would you like to meet our tommy, Henry Fairhurst?
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Attlee’s Britain 1945-1951
Planning for the future?
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Belsen concentration camp 1945
What did the British find when they entered Belsen concentration camp?
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Bound for Britain
Experiences of immigration to the UK
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Britain and the Holocaust
How much did the British government know?
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British Response to V1 and V2
How did Britain respond to the threat of attack by missiles in 1943?
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British Union of Fascists
How strong was support for British Fascist Party in the 1930s?
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Bussa’s rebellion
How and why did the enslaved Africans of Barbados rebel in 1816?
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Captain Cook in Hawaii
What happened on his final voyage?
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Caribbean history in photographs
What can these photographs tell us?
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Cats and mice
What tactics were used by suffragettes, police and government?
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Census detective
What can you find out?
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Chamberlain and Hitler 1938
What was Chamberlain trying to do?
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Chartism on trial
Why did some people become Chartists?
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Chertsey
What was Chertsey like in the Middle Ages?
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Children in the mines
Can you help the commissioner gather evidence on life in the mines?
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Civil Rights in America
Follow the progress of the struggle through the archives
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Cold War
How did relations between the wartime allies turn frosty?
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Crisis in the reign of Mary I
How far was the Queen responsible?
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Dissolution of the monasteries
Did Henry VIII change the face of England with the stroke of a pen?
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Domesday Book
What can we learn about England in the 11th century?
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Domesday Book – the day of judgement
Would you like to take part in our Domesday drama?
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Easter Rising 1916
How justified was Britain's response?
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Eden’s last stand
Why did Anthony Eden resign in 1938?
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Elizabeth I in her own words
What insights do Elizabeth I's speeches and letters provide?
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Elizabethan propaganda
How did England try to show Spain planned to invade in 1588?
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Evacuation to Canada
How much care was really taken?
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Evacuation to Shropshire
What was it like in the Second World War?
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Fifties Britain
Never so good? Or too good to be true?
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Florence Nightingale
Why do we remember her?
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Four days’ hard labour
What was life like for a Victorian child criminal?
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French Revolution
How did the British react to July 1789?
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German occupation of the Rhineland
What should Britain do about it?
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God blew and they were scattered
Did God really help the English defeat the Spanish Armada?
Gordon Ford’s story
What was it like to be an airman in World War Two?
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Government posters
How did Britain encourage people at home to help win the 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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Great Fire of London: how London changed
What happened?
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Great Plague of 1665-1666
How did London respond to it?
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Great War soldier’s record
What can we find out?
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Gunpowder Plot
Can you uncover the plans of the plotters?
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Helyntion Beca (Cymraeg/Welsh)
Beth a ddigwyddodd yn ystod
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Henry VIII court rules
How did Henry VIII get up in the morning?
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Henry VIII: image of a king
Was appearance everything for a ruler in the 16th century?
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How we were taught
What was school like 100 years ago?
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Independent research
Do you need help with your independent research?
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Jacobite Rebellion of 1715
Rebels with a cause?
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Jacobite Rising of 1745
A serious threat to the Hanoverians?
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Jutland: Death at sea
Were lives wasted when the Indefatigable sank?
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Kindertransport
Saving refugee children?
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Life aboard the Titanic
Who travelled on the fateful maiden voyage?
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Life during wartime
What can you discover about life on the Home Front in Britain?
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Magna Carta
Did people take Magna Carta seriously?
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Magna Carta, 1215 and beyond
A medieval revolution?
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Mapping the City
How and why does an area change over time?
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Mining explosion
The Trimdon Grange mining accident
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Murder at Kirk o’ Field
What happened in 1567?
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Native North Americans
What was early contact like between Europeans and Natives?
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Noor Khan: behind enemy lines
Would you like to meet Noor Khan, SOE agent?
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Outrage at Kew
What's the story?
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Past pleasures
How did the Victorians have fun?
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Poor Victorian children
What was life like for poor children in the 1840s?
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Propaganda and the art of war
How did the British government encourage people to support the war?
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Rebecca riots
What happened during them?
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Rob Roy
A Victorian railway accident
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Russian Revolution observed
How did the British government react to events at the time?
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Say ‘cheese': a portrait of Queen Victoria’s family
What can Queen Victoria's family photographs tell us?
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School dinners
Why were school dinners brought in?
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Selling the Victorians
Victorians for sale! Has advertising changed from Victorian times?
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Sixties Britain
A social and cultural revolution?
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Slavery
How did the Abolition Acts of 1807 and 1833 affect the slave trade?
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Storytelling workshops (SEN)
Would you like to journey through time?
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Suffragettes through government eyes: ‘A little daylight game’?
What do the records reveal?
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The Home Front
How did people prepare for the war at home?
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The King, the Crown and the Colonel
How did Thomas Blood try to steal the Crown Jewels in 1671?
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The Road to Partition 1939-1947
The violent creation of two new nations
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The Royal Seal
What can it tell us?
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The sinking of the Titanic
Why were so many lives lost in the disaster?
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Thirties Britain
The depressed decade?
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This Evil Trade: Olaudah Equiano and abolition
Can you find evidence that will support Equiano's argument for abolition?
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Through Hitler’s words
A charismatic leader?
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Treasures from the past: the Victorians (SEN)
What can we discover about a person from the past?
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Trimdon
What was it like living in a late 19th century mining town?
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Tudor rebellions
How seriously did they challenge the authority of the crown?
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Tudor revels
Can you work with original documents and perform a masque fit for a king?
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Unmasking a spy
Who was Karel Richter?
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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 using family sources?
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Victorian homes
Was there much difference between rich and poor homes?
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Victorian lives
How was life different in Victorian times?
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Virtual classroom taster
Would you like to book a live virtual classroom taster session?
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What is history? (KS2)
How do historians know what to believe?
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William Shakespeare
What can we find out about his life?
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World Cup 1966
Did England rig the result?
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Zeppelin raids
How did First World War Zeppelin raids affect British civilians?
