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Outreach

Projects and Exhibitions

Families

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Time Periods

Medieval
974 - 1485

Early modern
1485 - 1750

Empire and industry
1750 - 1850

Victorians
1850 - 1901

Early 20th Century
1901 - 1918

Interwar
1918 - 1939

Second World War
1939 - 1945

Postwar
1945 - present

Key Stages

Select sessions and resources by Key Stage:

Featured resources

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Time Travel Tots

Storytelling adventures inspired by our collections

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Workhouse Voices Competition

Our Creative Writing competition for KS2-4.

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Letters of Lockdown

Read and be inspired by our examples of letters from the collection.

Video

Film of the month

Pathé: Harvest Uplift, Harvest Help

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Document of the month

SP12/193 (54) Babington's acknowledgement of ciphers used with Mary Queen of Scots, September 1586

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Sessions we teach

Our sessions are delivered by a team of education officers.

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Onsite Workshops

Book a workshop taught onsite at The National Archives is Kew.

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Online Sessions

Book a virtual classroom or video conference taught online in your classroom.

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Themed Collections

Use original documents to develop your own questions and lines of historical enquiry.

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Focused Topics

Our focused topics cover a huge variety of times and places.

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Lessons

Investigations mapped to the curriculum that can be covered in a single period.