For students

Each summer, The National Archives' on site education team at Kew, London, offer young people in schools and colleges the chance to take part in a unique project that explores some of the hidden stories in our documents.

• 2021: Rebels in the records
• 2021: Seafarers Stories
• 2020: From outbreak to archive
• 2020: Workhouse Voices: Creative Writing Competition
• 2019: Mental Health on Record
• 2018: University of Worcester Graphic Design
• 2018: Holding History
• 2018: Writing War, Writing Peace
• 2018: Armistice and Legacy
• 2017: Piety, plunder and protest
• 2017: Suffrage Tales
• 2016: Somme Tales

How to find what you are looking for at The National Archives, as well as tips for revising, writing essays, and using sources.

• How to write essays
• Starting your research
• Working with sources
• How to revise

These short video tasks are accessible introductions to some of our online lesson resources.

• The Factory Act
• The Civil Wars
• Suffragettes in Trousers
• Slavery
• School dinners
• Murder at Kirk o’ Field
• Gunpowder Plot
• Great War Soldier’s Record
• Christmas is cancelled!
• Chamberlain and Hitler 1938
• British Response to V1 and V2
• Bound for Britain
• Belsen concentration camp 1945

Our Study Days pair our education workshops with other activities such as crafts, talks by leading Historians or experiences with reenactors.

• Versailles Study Day 2019
• KS2 Refugee Education Day 2020
• Tudor Study Day 2021
• Suffrage Day 2018