A number of LMA’s free educational resources that use archival material to support learning across a range of different topics.
Take a tour of London Metropolitan Archives with this introductory film, learning more about the service we deliver and the collections we hold.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHG6kehiJUc&t=112s
A number of LMA’s free educational resources that use archival material to support learning across a range of different topics.
Take a tour of London Metropolitan Archives with this introductory film, learning more about the service we deliver and the collections we hold.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHG6kehiJUc&t=112s
Based on the Eric and Jessica Huntley Archive, this rich and powerful collection of materials covers fifty years of Black History in London. Discover the work of pioneering campaigners and education workers in the Black community and learn about the experience of migrating to London in the ‘50s and ‘60s. The pack also focuses on the wide cultural life which grew up around Bogle-L’Ouverture, the Huntleys’ London publishing house and bookshop.
The Campaign! Make an Impact model follows a simple three step plan. The process engages young people with inspiring campaigns from the past, provides examples of campaign strategies and supports active involvement in planning and delivering their own campaign.
The Tolpuddle Martyrs, Clerkenwell Fund, Bryant and May Strike and Mumia Abu-Jamal cover nearly two hundred years of campaign history. They are linked because of the way in which ordinary people have gathered to a cause born out of social injustice. Determination, resolute purpose and courage to stand against what seems like overwhelming opposition mark these campaigns out. The resources, drawn from archive material about each event, provide starting points to help young people gain insights into historical campaigns and to be inspired to create a campaign of their own.
Between 1700 and 1900, Britain stopped punishing the bodies of convicts and increasingly sought to exile them and/or reform their minds. Exile and forced labour in Australia and incarceration in penitentiaries became the dominant modes of punishment. This exhibition uses the collections of the London Metropolitan Archives and findings of the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s Digital Panopticon project to trace the impact of these changes on convict lives.
This education pack includes a guide to the exhibition narrative, a series of worksheets, a time-line and further reading suggestions. It has been put together to provide teachers and educators with a series of resources that can be used in a group visit by GCSE and AS/A-Level students to the exhibition.
The worksheets have been designed to meet the needs of EdExcel/Pearson, OCR, and WJEC Eduqas GCSE syllabuses and EdExcel A-Level History curricula. These courses all address the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century development of crime and punishment in the UK and transportation to Australia.
This series of resources contains information for teachers on the historical background to the issuing of the Magna Carta and suggestions for cross-curricular classroom activities on the history and contemporary significance of the Magna Carta.
You can find a selection of digital doucumets on LMA’s catalogue by following this link: https://tinyurl.com/yb7rcusa
Curriculum links
The resources have been created by LMA to support the teaching of the National Curriculum. Links to specific subjects’ curricula are detailed below.
Art:
Students should be able to analyse and evaluate their own work, and that of others, in order to strengthen the visual impact or applications of their work.
Citizenship
Students should:
Understand the development of the political system of democratic government in the United Kingdom, including the roles of citizens, Parliament and the monarch
Be equipped with the skills to think critically and debate political questions, to enable them to manage their money on a day-to-day basis, and plan for future financial needs.
English
Students should:
Be able to read easily, fluently and with good understanding
Be able to write clearly, accurately and coherently, adapting their language and style in and for a range of contexts, purposes and audiences
Be able to use discussion in order to learn; they should be able to elaborate and explain clearly their understanding and ideas
Be competent in the arts of speaking and listening, making formal
presentations, demonstrating to others and participating in debate.
History
Students should achieve an understanding of:
The development of Church, state and society in Medieval Britain 1066 - 1509
Magna Carta and the emergence of Parliament
Medieval society, economy and culture: for example, feudalism, religion in daily life (parishes, monasteries, abbeys), farming, trade and towns (especially the wool trade), art, architecture and literature.
This pack introduces teachers and young people to the amazingly rich life of Cy Grant and his ground-breaking work campaigning for human rights and racial equality. Barrister, war veteran, actor, singer-songwriter, broadcaster and multi-ethnic arts co-ordinator Cy dedicated his life to the pursuit of excellence and to using his celebrity and artistic and spiritual insight for the good of others.