Part 1: Approaches using sources

Use the links below to download the sources and accompanying material for the ideas in Part 1.

Resources

Idea 1: The mystery document

• Image: Mystery Document (HO 144/1205/222030/23)

Idea 2: Is a historian like a detective?

• Document: Discuss and Define Word Lists

Idea 4: Spot the difference

• Image: Croquet on the Lawn (COPY 1/18 f.365)
• Image: Women's Cycle Race (COPY 1/95 f.294)

Idea 5: Making a timeline

• Image: Illustration of the Wedding Ceremony of Victoria and Albert (Work 21/19)
• Image: Ticket from the Great Western Railway 1901 (RAIL 1014/9)
• Transcript: Ticket from the Great Western Railway 1901 (RAIL 1014/9)
• Image: Extract from Coronation Roll (C/95/9)
• Transcript: Extract from Coronation Roll (C/95/9)
• Simplified Transcript: Extract from Coronation Roll (C/95/9)

Idea 7: Numbers in history

• Image: List of Articles of Hospital Furniture Supplied by F. Nightingale (WO 33/1 f.33)

Idea 8: Literacy and history

• Image: Photograph only – Henry Munday Crime Sheet (PCOM 2/291)
• Image: Full document – Henry Munday Crime Sheet (PCOM 2/291)

Idea 9: Piecing the evidence together

• Image: Photographs (KV 2/32 (12))
• Image: List of Exhibits (KV 2/32 (1))
• Image: Map (KV 2/32 (4))

Idea 10: Using historical sources for role play

• Image: Source 1 – Part of a letter from a journalist, 5 September 1665 (SP 29/132/28)
• Transcript: Source 1 – Part of a letter from a journalist, 5 September 1665 (SP 29/132/28)
• Image: Source 2, Part 1 – Orders for the prevention of the plague, 1666 (SP 26/155/102)
• Image: Source 2, Part 2 – Orders for the prevention of the plague, 1666 (SP 26/155/102)
• Transcript: Source 2 – Orders for the prevention of the plague, 1666 (SP 26/155/102)
• Image: Source 3 – Part of a letter from a civil servant, 8 October 1665 (SP 29/134/31)
• Transcript: Source 3 – Part of a letter from a civil servant, 8 October 1665 (SP 29/134/31)
• Image: Source 4 – Case discussed at court at Whitehall in the presence of Charles II, 2 April 1665 (PC 2/58/118)
• Transcript: Source 4 – Case discussed at court at Whitehall in the presence of Charles II, 2 April 1665 (PC 2/58/118)

Idea 11: The five-second rule!

• Image: Tableau of the British Empire for Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee (COPY 1/380 f.410)

Idea 12: Having trouble with transcripts?

• Image: Extract from London Illustrated News, 21 February 1946, page 125 (ZPER 34/8)
• Transcript: Extract from London Illustrated News, 21 February 1946, page 125 (ZPER 34/8)

Idea 13: How to make history!

• Document: Suggested Words for a Glossary

Idea 14: Causation: big and little causes

• Image: Page 1 – Statement of Claim and Verdict in the case of Ryan v. the Oceanic Steam Navigation Co. Ltd, 30 June 1912 (J 54/1548)
• Image: Page 2 – Statement of Claim and Verdict in the case of Ryan v. the Oceanic Steam Navigation Co. Ltd, 30 June 1912 (J 54/1548)

Idea 17: What's in the box?

• Document: Types of Sources

Idea 18: Working with captions

• Image: Munitions Factory (INF 2/44/11)
• Image: St Paul's (INF 2/44/45)
• Image: Barrage Balloons (INF 2/44/30)