Local Study
The importance of local history for developing a sense of place and identity is emphasised by the National Curriculum. The local landscape and buildings can often reveal a great deal about the use of land and the type of people who lived there in the past. Buildings and landscape can reveal how long a heritage the place has had. Monuments and local heritage or parish records can highlight individual local heroes or provide a window into the lives of ordinary local people in times gone by. How similar or different were their lives? Often, the local picture can also help to reveal the national or international picture.
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Using original sources
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Using role-play to develop young children’s understanding of the past
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Using some more unusual sources in the primary classroom
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Using the back cover image: Lest We Forget
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Using the back cover image: Sandbach Crosses - an Anglo-Saxon market cross
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Using the back cover image: Westonzoyland War Memorial
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Using trade directories: reconstructing life 100 years ago
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Victorians
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Visits and Museums
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War memorials as a local history resource
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What can you do with an old postcard?
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What confuses primary children in history...
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What makes good local history?
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What was it like to live here in the past? Resourcing the local study
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What your local Archive Service can offer to schools
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What’s in a road? Local history at Early Years and Key Stage 1
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World War II: breathing life into a local history enquiry
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Year 7 explore the story of a London street
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Your Local Railway: a local history investigation in Key Stage 2
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‘Not again!’ - an additional viewpoint on using railways
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