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Working with photographs as sources
There are quite a lot of things you need to watch out for when using photographs as sources. Just like documents they must be treated with caution.
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All of our resources follow an enquiry-based approach and use records from our collections at The National Archives.
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There are quite a lot of things you need to watch out for when using photographs as sources. Just like documents they must be treated with caution.
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Use this lesson, created in collaboration with the Bishopsgate Institute, to find out about LGBTQ+ rights and lives from the 1700s to the present day.
This collection of records, part of our series on letters from the First World War, features soldiers posted to India, Greece, Turkey and Malta.
This collection from our Letters from the First World War teaching resource series features letters that relate to soldiers' experience of medical treatment.
Letters in this collection relate to soldiers' experience at the railheads on the Western front. Part of series of resources on First World War letters.
The letters collected here were all written from the trenches between 1914 and 1915. They are part of a series of connected teaching resources.
These letters, sent from the trenches on the Western Front, date from 1916–1918. They are part of a series of connected teaching resources.
These letters and transcripts, part of a series of connected resources, relate to soldiers' experience of training in England before they were sent abroad.
This set of documents relates to King John’s acceptance of Magna Carta in 1215 and King Henry III’s agreement to a revised version of Magna Carta in 1225.
This set of documents relates to the baron's reform movement that began in 1258 and the opposition faced by Edward I when he attempted to raise taxes in 1297.
Use this lesson to find out more about the role of Framlingham, Portchester, Stokesay, Berwick, Alnwick, and Pevensey castles in medieval society.
Medieval women’s lives were as varied as they are today. Use this lesson to find out about their lives in from records held at The National Archives.
These documents demonstrate the lasting legacy of Magna Carta in the modern world, both as a set of laws and as a historical artefact.
We are currently refreshing our teaching resources and regularly adding new and updated ones. If you cannot find what you are looking for here, all of our old resources are permanently available in the UK Government Web Archive.