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    • Resource: Workshop or activity session County: South Yorkshire 1940s: Wartime Children
      Kelham Island Museum, Sheffield
      Kelham Island Museum | Sheffield
    • Venue: Historic house or home, Museum County: Merseyside 20 Forthlin Road Liverpool
    • Event: Workshop or activity session County: Warwickshire 60th Stratford-upon-Avon Poetry Festival
      An exciting programme of headline artists, unique recitals and events including People’s Poetry Sunday where the town of Stratford comes alive with verse. For more details visit www.shakespeare.org.uk
      Shakespeare's Birthplace and the Shakespeare Centre | Stratford-upon-Avon | 30 June — 4 August 2013
    • Resource: Workshop or activity session County: Greater London A Box Full of Stories for KS1 and KS2 to support the Literacy Hour
      Somerset House, London
      Somerset House | London
    • A black and white picture of an old man sitting in a chair by a fire with a ghost in the room.
      Article: Preview A Hankering After Ghosts: British Library's Charles Dickens and the Supernatural
      To mark the bicentenary of his birth, the British Library in London goes beyond A Christmas Carol for a new exhibition on Charles Dickens, the supernatural and the macabre.
      06 December 2011
    • Article: Trail A Lancashire Invasion: City's Trip to London for the 1904 Cup Final
      The 1904 Cup Final: most of the Pubs and Working Men's Clubs in the Ardwick area and in the city, organised excursions to the capital.
      21 June 2004
    • Resource: Paper-based and downloads, Teachers' pack or notes County: Co. Antrim A Pale Yellow Sky Haiku Pack for Teachers
      Naughton Gallery, Belfast
      Naughton Gallery | Belfast
    • Resource: Resource or activity pack, Virtual exhibition or images, Teachers' pack or notes County: Durham A Roman Resource Pack for Teachers
      Old Fulling Mill Museum of Archaeology, Durham
      Old Fulling Mill Museum of Archaeology | Durham
    • Resource County: East Sussex A Series of Designs for Villas and Country Houses
      The Regency Town House, Brighton & Hove
      The Regency Town House | Brighton & Hove
    • A photograph of a woman and a man holding a circular tapestry frame
      Article: News A stitch in time: work starts on the Great Scottish Tapestry at the Scottish Parliament
      Author Alexander McCall Smith and Scottish Parliament officer Tricia Marwick have put the initial stitches to a tapestry of Scottish history that is expected to be the longest in the world.
      10 April 2012
    • Article: Trail A Trail Of Anglo-Sikh Heritage Around London
      Sikhs have resided in Great Britain in small numbers for centuries and this trail, developed with the Anglo Sikh Heritage Trail, explores locations in London linked to their heritage.
      26 May 2005
    • Resource: Workshop or activity session County: Greater London A Victorian Excursion – History workshop for KS1 or KS2
      Somerset House, London
      Somerset House | London
    • Event: Exhibition (temporary) County: Tyne and Wear A Viking's Guide to Deadly Dragons with Cressida Cowell
      A Viking’s Guide to Deadly Dragons will transport you back in time to the Dark Ages, a world where Vikings ruled and dragons roamed. With Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third as your unlikely hero, discover the tribe...
      Seven Stories, the national centre for children's books | Newcastle & Gateshead | 27 October 2012 — 25 September 2013
    • Article: Trail A Voyage Round O'Brian's Britain - The Master And Commander Museum Trail
      A Voyage Round O'Brian's Britain is a tour of UK museums that brings the world of Patrick O'Brian's Jack Aubrey to life.
      22 November 2003
    • Resource: Workshop or activity session County: East Sussex A Wartime Christmas NEW FOR 2007
      Michelham Priory, Hailsham
      Michelham Priory | Hailsham
    • Venue: Historic house or home, Museum, Library County: Scottish Borders Abbotsford House Melrose
    • Abington Park Museum
      Event: Exhibition (temporary) County: Northamptonshire Abington and the Last of the Shakespeares
      A major new exhibition about the life of Abington Park Museum- its history as a manor house and home of the last ancestor of William Shakespeare, as an asylum and its most recent transformation into a well-loved museum.
      Abington Park Museum | Northampton | 18 May — 31 October 2013
      Tags: BBC Hands on History
    • Venue: Library County: Lancashire Accrington Library Accrington
    • Resource: Handling collection or artefacts, Resource or activity pack, Teachers' pack or notes, Taught session (schools), Workshop or activity session County: Cheshire Adventurous Victorians workshop (KS 1 and 2)
      Cheshire Military Museum, Chester
      Cheshire Military Museum | Chester
    • Venue: Association or society County: Greater London Africa Centre London
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