Case Study: The history on your doorstep: Using Archives Creatively

Editorial note: Further details of this project and others can be found in Using Archives Creatively (Chapter 4) in ‘Teaching History Creatively' edited by Hilary Cooper published by Routledge in December 2012.

Archive Centres support innovative teaching

Using archive documentation

Some teachers, especially those with little training in teaching History, are reluctant to use archive documentation perhaps because they do not understand what archives are and how best to approach using them with their classes.

Children need to be helped to understand that archive documentation is about real people and real places - often linked to their own locality in some way - as a hook to capture their curiosity...