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The Archives and Local Studies Service offers a range of services for schools, colleges and universities. We can supply photocopy documents to support your delivery of key National Curriculum areas or specific projects. We can provide free advice to teachers and individual pupils or students about the range of sources that we hold to help your projects. Sessions are offered at your site or at the Somerset Heritage Centre, which has a dedicated learning room. For primary schools, topics include the Tudors, the Victorians, the Second World War, and local studies of your village or town. For secondary schools we offer sessions and resources relevant to a range of subjects including linguistics (language change), history (e.g. cholera and public health, slavery, the Tudors, general documentary sources), archaeology (archaeological sources at the Heritage Centre), law and sociology (crime and punishment). At further and higher education level we can tailor advice and sessions to meet your needs. Recent topics that we have covered include sources for archaeology, the Poor Law and how to read old handwriting. |
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| Document Packs | |||||||||||
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We have a range of document packs available on particular
themes that link to the National Curriculum. For information on
details and prices, please see the document packs
page.
We can also create tailor made packs to fit the project that you are doing. In a study on the development of your locality you could use maps such as the tithe map of the area and the Ordnance Survey maps. Census figures 1801-1991 will show you how the population has risen (or fallen) over the past 200 years. We may have postcards or photographs of the village showing what it looked like in the early 1900s. In a study on the Victorians you might also use these maps and population figures and, in addition, entries from parish registers, school records, County Directories and the detailed census returns 1841-1891. |
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Staff can support teachers by arranging sessions at the Heritage Centre, either during the day or after school hours, to discuss available sources and offer suggestions on their use in the classroom. We can also visit schools to talk to staff as part of a training day or after hours. Previous sessions have included Sources for the History of Your School, The Tudor Age and The Somerset Seaside. |
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| Visits to Schools | |||||||||||
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We can visit your school to talk to pupils preparing for projects for GCSE or A level, bringing some sample documents with us and offering advice about the projects. We are happy to advise individual pupils, either at the Heritage Centre, or by email, post or phone. We can also visit schools that are doing a wide range of projects relating to Somerset. These can include history, geography, the environment and citizenship. Sessions involve PowerPoint presentations and group or individual work. |
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| Visits to the Somerset Heritage Centre | |||||||||||
| We can take groups of any age to work on selected original records. We have a dedicated learning room for groups, and smaller groups of older students can also work in the main searchroom. | |||||||||||
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Charges Schools that subscribe to the Resources for Learning general pack receive all services free, with the exception of half and full day palaeography courses and education packs. | |||||||||||
| Talks to classes | £40.00 (£60.00 from 1 April 2012) | ||||||||||
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Half day palaeography course (max. 20 students) |
£50.00 | ||||||||||
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Full day palaeography course (max. 15 students) |
£90.00 | ||||||||||
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In Service Training for Teachers |
£30.00 | ||||||||||
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Tailor-made archive packs (charged by the time taken to prepare them) |
£30.00 per hour | ||||||||||
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Photocopies of documents where references are known (up to 5 sheets) |
50p per sheet | ||||||||||
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Costs exclude external venue hire, which is the responsibility of the school or college. |
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Contact Details |
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