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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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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4099 is my name (SEND)
How can we share the experiences of someone who lived in the past?
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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'?
All on board!
What can we learn from old board games?
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All pals together
Would you like to meet our tommy, Henry Fairhurst?
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Belsen concentration camp 1945
What did the British find when they entered Belsen concentration camp?
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Body Snatchers
What led to the Anatomy Act of 1832?
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Bound for Britain
Experiences of immigration to the UK
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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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Chamberlain and Hitler 1938
What was Chamberlain trying to do?
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Chertsey
What was Chertsey like in the Middle Ages?
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Choosing for the Archives (SEND)
How can we find out about someone from the past, using documents, images and objects?
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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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Convincing the Colonies
How did Britain try to keep the support of the people of West Africa?
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Crime in Whitechapel
What made Whitechapel an area where the ‘detection’ of murders was ‘very difficult’?
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Discover the Dissolution
How did the Dissolution change my local area?
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Domesday Book
What can we learn about England in the 11th century?
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Domesday Book: medieval treasure
What can we learn about people’s lives in 1086?
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Eden’s last stand
Why did Anthony Eden resign in 1938?
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Elizabethan propaganda
How did England try to show Spain planned to invade in 1588?
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England’s Immigrants, 1330-1550
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Enquiring into Elizabeth
What were the issues faced by England’s most famous Tudor Queen?
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Evacuation to Canada
How much care was really taken?
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Foundling Hospital
What were conditions like for children in the care of the Foundling Hospital?
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French Revolution
How did the British react to July 1789?
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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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Georgian Britain
Age of modernity?
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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?
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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: 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’s royal rules (SEND)
What were the rules of daily life for a king in Tudor times?
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Hitler assassination plan
How did the British plan to kill Hitler?
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Holding History
What is 'The National Archives'?
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How we were taught
What was school like 100 years ago?
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Jacobite propaganda
What was the point of Jacobite propaganda?
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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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Letters from the First World War, part one
How did these men experience the conflict? (1915)
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Letters from the First World War, part two
How did these men experience the conflict? (1916 - 18)
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Life aboard the Titanic
Who travelled on the fateful maiden voyage?
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Loyalty and dissent
How did Indian soldiers respond to the First World War?
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Magna Carta, 1215 and beyond
A medieval revolution?
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Medicine on the Western Front (part one)
How did trench warfare affect injuries and treatment?
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Medicine on the Western Front (part two)
How did trench warfare affect injuries and treatment?
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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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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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Past pleasures
How did the Victorians have fun?
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People – GCSE English Language
Using images for descriptive and narrative writing
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Places – GCSE English Language
Using images for descriptive and narrative writing
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Rebecca riots
What happened during them?
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Resistance and Rebellion in the Caribbean
How did enslaved people resist?
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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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Slavery
How did the Abolition Acts of 1807 and 1833 affect the slave trade?
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Suffrage Tales
What would you do?
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Suffragettes
How can we find out about suffragettes and the reactions to their methods?
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Suffragettes ‘in Trousers’
How did men support votes for women?
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Suffragettes on file
What did the struggle for the vote involve?
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Suffragettes: Outrage at Kew
What's the story?
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The Holocaust
Key documents from The National Archives
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The Holocaust
What can British government documents tell us about what happened in the Holocaust?
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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 Sinking of the Titanic
Why were so many lives lost in the disaster?
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Trimdon
What was it like living in a late 19th century mining town?
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Tudor Entertainment
What was the effect of the early playhouses?
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Victorian children in trouble with the law
Did the punishment fit the crime?
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Victorian Food and Drink
What do old adverts reveal?
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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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William Shakespeare
What can we find out about his life?
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Women and the English Civil Wars
How did these conflicts affect their lives?
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Workhouse Voices
What did paupers say about the Poor Law?
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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?