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A Great Christmas Inconvenience
What can we learn from the documents about how some Victorians celebrated Christmas?
A Significant Person
Why is this person from the past remembered?
A suffragette and the census
What can you learn from our documents about a person who lived in the 1920s?
All Work and No Play
What does this document reveal about work in the past?
Animals in the Archives
What jobs have animals done in times of war and peace?
Archaeology in the Archives
What kinds of documents can tell us about the work of archaeologists?
Archives Ahoy!
What can we learn about pirates from our collection?
Atlas of Illustrated Feelings
How are you feeling today?
Census Detectives
What does the census reveal about families in the past?
Codes and Secret Messages
What do the documents reveal about codes and secret messages?
Craft Club – Christmas Cards
Festive pop-up cards
Creating a zig-zag journey book
Refugee Week 2021
Creating an Imaginary Archive
What would you collect?
Curiosities
What is this curious object?
Dear Herbert
What can personal documents reveal about people’s lives?
Disaster at Sea
How can we find out about significant events in the past?
Fun in the Files
What can our documents reveal about how people had fun in the past?
Holidays are Here!
What can our documents reveal about how families enjoyed summer holidays during the Second World War?
Classroom resource
Introduction
What is The National Archives?
Living under canvas
What can this document tell us about the experience of a group of refugee children?
Propaganda
How can art be used to convey a message?
Signed, Sealed, Delivered
What can an object reveal about its owner and life in Medieval England?
The Beautiful Game
What can our documents reveal about an incredible sports match?
The Yellow Bicycle
A story of migration
TTTV: Refugee Week 2021
What can we learn from documents about Basque children’s experiences in refugee camps?
Tudors: Image of a King
How did monarchs present an ‘image’ of themselves in the past?