Read original documents relating to Suffragettes, the Russian Revolution and the First World War. Cabinet papers, battle plans, maps and unit war diaries chronicle the conflict between Europe’s great powers.
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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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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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Child migration
Why were children sent to Canada in 1869-1913?
Codes and Secret Messages
What do the documents reveal about codes and secret messages?
Craft Club – Christmas Cards
Festive pop-up cards
Curiosities
What is this curious object?
Disaster at Sea
How can we find out about significant events in the past?
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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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Great War soldier’s record
What can we find out?
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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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Introduction
What is The National Archives?
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Jutland: Death at sea
Were lives wasted when the Indefatigable sank?
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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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Medicine on the Western Front
How can we find out about medical treatment in the First World War?
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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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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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School dinners
Why were school dinners brought in?
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Significant Events
What happened then?
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Significant People
Who is who?
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Significant Places
What's in a place?
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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 through government eyes: ‘A little daylight game’?
What do the records reveal about the movement?
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Suffragettes: Outrage at Kew
What's the story?
The Beautiful Game
What can our documents reveal about an incredible sports match?
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The Sinking of the Titanic
Why were so many lives lost in the disaster?
Time Travel Club Activities
Discovering The National Archives
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Travel smart through time (SEND)
How and why have people travelled around in the past and how have they done it safely?
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Virtual classroom taster
Would you like to book a live virtual classroom taster session?
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Walter Tull
How can we use sources to find out about him?
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What is history? (KS2)
How do historians know what to believe?
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Zeppelin raids
How did First World War Zeppelin raids affect British civilians?