Education sessions and resources

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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A ‘right’ to relief?

In what ways did paupers hold the Poor Law to account?
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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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African nurses

What part did they play in British health services?
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All pals together

Would you like to meet our tommy, Henry Fairhurst?
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Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement

From Conflict to Peace - 25 Years On
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Belsen concentration camp 1945

What did the British find when they entered Belsen concentration camp?
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BGFA25 – Discussion Activity

From Conflict to Peace - 25 Years On
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Boston Tea Party

How was the 1773 Boston Tea Party significant for the American Revolution?
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Bound for Britain

Experiences of immigration to the UK
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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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Bulaya Chanda

What do these documents reveal about Bulaya Chanda, soldier and ‘showman’?
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Bussa’s rebellion

How and why did the enslaved Africans of Barbados rebel in 1816?
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Cats and mice

What tactics were used by suffragettes, police and government?
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Child migration

Why were children sent to Canada in 1869-1913?
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Christmas is cancelled!

What were Cromwell’s main political and religious aims for the Commonwealth 1650-1660?
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Civil Rights in America

Follow the progress of the struggle through the archives
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Cold War

How concerned were the British in the early stages of the Cold War?
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Commonwealth migration since 1945

What was the context and impact of migration in modern Britain?
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Crime and Punishment: Robert Peel

How was law enforcement changed by Sir Robert Peel’s new Metropolitan Police Force?
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Criminal petitions

What do they reveal about the justice system?
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Discover the Dissolution

How did the Dissolution change my local area?
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Dr James Barry

Why was he significant in 19th century medicine?
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Eden’s last stand

Why did Anthony Eden resign in 1938?
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Edward the Confessor

What does the Domesday Abbreviato tells us about Edward the Confessor?
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Elizabethan propaganda

How did England try to show Spain planned to invade in 1588?
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English Reformation c1527-1590

How did state and people respond to religious change?
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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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Evacuation to Shropshire

What happened to children who were sent away?
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Fifties Britain

Never so good? Or too good to be true?
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Foundling Hospital

What were conditions like for children in the care of the Foundling Hospital?
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Framlingham Castle

What was the primary function of Framlingham Castle in the ‘Middle Ages’?
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From Outbreak to Archive: Tales of Public Health

What do the documents reveal about how government and society dealt with public health in the past?
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From the Front

How typical was Albert Edwin Rippington’s experience of war?
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General Haig

Butcher of the Somme or hero of Amiens?
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God blew and they were scattered

Did God really help the English defeat the Spanish Armada?
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Government posters

How did Britain encourage people at home to help win the war?
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Health and the Poor Law

To what degree did the Poor Law make an important contribution to Public Health?
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Henry VIII court rules

How did Henry VIII get up in the morning?
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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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Hitler assassination plan

How did the British plan to kill Hitler?
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Huguenots in England

What was the experience of Huguenot migrants in seventeenth century England?
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Jacobite propaganda

What was the point of Jacobite propaganda?
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Jews in England 1066

Why did Jews settle in England after 1066?
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Jews in England 1216-72

What was the relationship between Christians and Jews from 1216-72?
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Jews in England 1290

Why did Edward I expel the Jews in 1290?
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Jutland: Death at sea

Were lives wasted when the Indefatigable sank?
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Kenilworth Castle (part two)

What do the medieval records reveal?
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LGBTQ+ Rights in Britain

How have changes in laws and attitudes affected LGBTQ+ people in Britain?
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Loyalty and dissent

How did Indian soldiers respond to the First World War?
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Mangrove Nine protest

What does this reveal about police brutality and racism in '70s Britain?
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May Fourth Movement 1919

Why did the Paris Peace Conference lead to a mass protest movement in China?
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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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Medieval castles

What was their purpose and significance?
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Mental Health on Record

What do the documents reveal about the understanding of mental health in the past?
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Migrants to Britain

What can government documents reveal about the experience of Indian seafarers?
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Native North Americans

What was early contact like between English colonists and Native Americans?
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Partition of British India

What can The National Archives documents reveal about the partition of British India?
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Rebels in the records

What can we learn from documents that show how people ‘rebelled’ in the past?
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Richard II

Were the troubles facing England in the 1370s and 1380s due to Richard II’s age and inexperience?
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Seafarers’ Stories

How can we tell the stories of the Mirpuri, Bengali and Panjabi seafarers who travelled to Britain in the 1920s-30s?
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Slavery

How did the Abolition Acts of 1807 and 1833 affect the slave trade?
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The Boxers of Whitechapel

What do the documents reveal about the inhabitants?
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The Chinese Civil War

Why did the fighting between the Kuomintang and Chinese Communist Party happen?
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The Holocaust

Key documents from The National Archives
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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 Search for ‘Terra Australis’

What did Captain Cook’s secret mission involve?
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The South African War

How did the British conduct war in 1899-1902?
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Tudor Entertainment

What was the effect of the early playhouses?
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Twenties Britain (part one)

Decade of conflict, realignment and change?
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Twenties Britain (part two)

Decade of conflict, realignment and change?
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Ugandan Asians

What was the impact of the expulsion from Uganda on the lives of British Asians?
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Uncovering LGBTQ+ lives in the archive

What types of sources might be useful to find out about the lives of LGBTQ+ people in the past?
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Victorian Health Reform

How did the Victorians view compulsory vaccination?
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What caused the 1832 Great Reform Act?

Political and social reform in 19th century Britain
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What was Chartism?

Political and social reform in 19th century Britain
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Whitechapel

How can we find out about what Whitechapel was like in 1888?
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William Shakespeare

What can we find out about his life?
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Zeppelin raids

How did First World War Zeppelin raids affect British civilians?