Posted to the Front
What can we find out about the role of the Post Office Rifles during the First World War?
Find out about the men and women of the General Post Office (GPO) who experienced the First World War, as their stories are brought into schools and classrooms across the country.
During a free session delivered onsite in your school, students will spend time with a soldier from the Post Office Rifles (played by an historical actor) as he talks about his involvement in the conflict, his experience of injury and medical treatment and the impact on his loved ones back at home.
Online resources about the GPO and the role of its employees during the conflict, will also be made freely available to schools. These are designed to support the GCSE curriculum, covering the First World War and the inter-war period.
The new sessions and resources are supported by the National Archives Trust and are made possible through the generosity of the Post Office Remembrance Fellowship.
Bookings for school sessions are now available in the autumn term. Session dates have been organised by region, so please select your area for available dates.
Online resources will be published during the autumn term. Please keep your eye on this page for further information.
This session supports schools studying Challenges to Britain and the wider world, 1901 to the present day.
Connections to the curriculum:
- Edexcel GCSE History: Medicine in Britain, c1250 present and The British sector of the Western Front, 1914-18.
Available as: Workshop delivered in your school.
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This session is delivered as a:
in your classroom
45 minutes