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The Record Office
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 in the Record Office. 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 Record
Office), 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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| Training Sessions | |||||||||||
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The Record Office can support teachers by arranging sessions at the Record Office, 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 at the Record Office 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 Record Office, 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 Record Office | |||||||||||
| We can take groups of any age to work on selected original records. Due to restricted space numbers must be limited to a maximum of 18. Smaller groups of older students can also work in the public searchrooms. | |||||||||||
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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 | £35.00 | ||||||||||
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Half day palaeography course (max. 20 students) |
£35.00 | ||||||||||
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Full day palaeography course (max. 15 students) |
£60.00 | ||||||||||
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In Service Training for Teachers |
£25.00 | ||||||||||
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Tailor-made archive packs (charged by the time taken to prepare them) |
£24.00 per hour | ||||||||||
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Photocopies of documents where references are known (up to 5 sheets) |
40p 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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