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EDUCATION WEBSITES
Click here to go to our Useful Links page for examples of the ever growing number of websites with valuable and interest material connecting local history and education.
Events & Developments in Local History Education
from Local History News
A new feature on the BALH website can be found on the Education pages: Making the Past Count. Professor Geoff Timmins from University of Central Lancashire has developed some classroom activities based on local history sources which require the application of basic numerical techniques. They are intended for primary and secondary school children, though they can be readily adapted for use in colleges and universities. Each exercise constitutes a local case study, the insights arising from which link with matters that are of general concern to historians. We would be delighted to hear from anyone trying these out.
Heritage Explorer Images for Learning from English Heritage is a one-stop shop for teachers. The website provides classroom resources and accessible information for teachers at all Key Stages, downloadable and free. There are four main facilities: ‘Teaching Activities’ takes specific images and associates them with a teaching idea, a Key Question, worksheets and interactive whiteboard downloads that can be used off the peg or adapted by teachers. ‘Images by Theme’ provides selections of images grouped into curriculum-based themes such as Victorian Life, World War II, Slavery, 1930s Buildings and so on. ‘Interactives’ hosts a variety of learning aids that can be used by teachers on interactive whiteboards or by pupils at their own computers. And the ‘Search’ facility permits teachers to explore English Heritage’s databases of historic photographs to find images relevant or local to them. www.heritageexplorer.org.uk
University of Birmingham College of Arts & Law’s programme of day schools includes ‘Hidden in Higher Education: Women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century West Midlands’ on Saturday 9 January 2010, and ‘Medieval Art Decoded?’ on Saturday 16 January. The 2010 annual conference of the Centre for West Midlands History on Saturday 20 March takes the subject of ‘War and Society in the West Midlands’. For further details see http://www.historycultures.bham.ac.uk/events/dayschools/index.shtml
Timescapes is a project from the University of Leeds recording memories of relationships and personal life from 1900 to the present, tracking 400 very different individuals through diaries, interviews, videos and photos. A link with the BBC website Memoryshare is encouraging as many people as possible to add their own memories to the archive. Although led from Leeds, the research involves sociologists, gerontologists, psychologists and oral historians from London South Bank, Cardiff, Edinburgh and the Open University. Each is in charge of one of the seven ‘micro-projects’ such as children and teenagers, or older lives. The Guardian 20.10.09 www.timescapes.leeds.ac.uk
2010 will mark 200 years of teaching at the British Schools in Hitchin. Joseph Lancaster had visited the town in 1808 and set out his ideas for teaching any number of children at minimal expense. The citizens, including the Hon Thomas Brand, were stirred into action; Colonel William Wilshere gave his old malthouse to accommodate the school. Mr Dimsey was appointed schoolmaster and the children started in 1810. To celebrate this anniversary the Friends of The British Schools Museum, Hitchin, are planning a number of events, including a re-enactment of the opening (with all these characters present) on Saturday 20 March. www.hitchinbritishschools.org.uk
Forest Heritage Scotland is part of the Scottish Government’s Homecoming Scotland 2009 initiative, developed by Forestry Commission Scotland in partnership with the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. It seeks to showcase the historic environment on the national forest estate, and focussed on the deserted 18th and 19th century townships of the Highlands and west coast, several early industrial landscapes, past woodland and forestry management, and well-preserved defensive structures from world war two. The resulting website blends landscape archaeology and social history using a rich variety of media. The illustration here shows a school visit organised by the ranger service recording a farmstead in Limerigg Wood near Falkirk. www.forestheritagescotland.com
A new national research project on Education using School Log Books has been organised by the Family & Community Historical Research Society (FACHRS). Local historians are invited to join a lively group of people working on this over the next few months. Professors Ruth Finnegan and Michael Drake (both of the Open University) are the academic advisers, with support from Professor Steven King (University of Leicester) and Dr Donna Loftus (Open University). The project was formally launched at the annual conference of FACHRS held on 23 May 2009. Expressions of interest and requests for further information on the project should be sent to: The Education Research Project Co-ordinator,
The Four Bees, Church Lane, Hellidon, Nr Daventry, Northants NN11 6GD
e-mail: membership.secretary@fachrs.org.uk
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