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The National Archives Education Service

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The Education Service provides free online resources and taught sessions, supporting the National Curriculum for history from key stage 1 up to A-level. Visit our website to access the full range of our resources, from Domesday to Britain in the 1960s, and find out about more about our schools programme, including new professional development opportunities for teachers.

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The Education Service provides free online resources and taught sessions, supporting the National Curriculum for history from key stage 1 up to A-level. Visit our website to access the full range of our resources, from Domesday to Britain in the 1960s, and find out about more about our schools programme, including new professional development opportunities for teachers.
Elizabethan Propaganda
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Elizabethan Propaganda

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This lesson is intended for use either as part of a study of the use of propaganda over time, or within the context of work on Elizabethan England and the Spanish Armada.
19th Century Mining Disaster
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19th Century Mining Disaster

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This lesson is designed to learn about what happened at the Trimdon Grange Mining Disaster. The lesson has an inquiry led approach to consider the possible causes of deaths in Victorian Britain.
Murder at Kirk o'Field
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Murder at Kirk o'Field

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This lesson involves the pupils in detective work, using three crucial sources about the murder of Lord Darnley the husband of Mary Queen of Scots. Pupils can study individual sources and report back to the whole class to answer the mystery.
Government Posters
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Government Posters

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This complete lesson plan with image based resources can be used to explore how the language of these government posters is used to persuade and inform.
The Great Seal
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The Great Seal

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A lesson to develop pupils understanding of how Elizabeth I presented herself to her subjects in the days before mass media. The sources provided support support the study of some of the key ways in which the Queen’s image was conveyed to her subjects and to be compared to the current queen.
19th Century People
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19th Century People

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This lesson aims to give pupils the opportunity to use two historical sources to answer questions based on photographs of people of the 19th century.
Victorian Lives: life different in these times
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Victorian Lives: life different in these times

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This collection of documents relating to the lives of the Victorians is aimed at any teacher or student engaged in a local study of the Victorian period. The sources could be used to help provide a sense of period and show pupils the type of sources they may encounter when looking at material in their local archive, museum or record office. The collection includes pictures, drawings, maps, photographs, advertisements, reports, census pages, letters etc.
How We Were Taught
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How We Were Taught

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This lesson provides material for examining photographs as evidence. It can also be used as stimulus material for looking at the history of education and can also be useful for pupils to investigate the history of their own school.
Victorian Homes
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Victorian Homes

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A lesson plan on Victorian homes. Pupils are gradually introduced to sources on Hackney, starting with a small map section, then photographic evidence, concluding with the census.
Past Pleasures
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Past Pleasures

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This lesson is designed to support History KS 1-2, units 11 and 12 to learn about the past times of the Victorian people.