English Heritage and Memory4teachers

English Heritage is pleased to announce its partnership with the Memory4teachers campaign enabling teachers to register for a free USB memory stick containing teaching resources.

A view of steam trains leaving Kings Cross in about 1925. The station was built by Lewis Cubitt between 1851 and 1852 English Heritage’s Education team has joined up with the archive of English Heritage, the National Monuments Record (NMR) and its education website Heritage Explorer, to present their offerings and provide links to their own websites via the memory stick. The links give teachers access to a treasure trove of free resources to support teaching and learning about the historic environment. The free, downloadable resources made available include high quality, copyright cleared, digital images for classroom use. As well as teacher’s kits and student activity sheets for educational groups using English Heritage’s free site entry scheme and excellent value Discovery Visits. Many of the resources meet national curriculum needs across a range of different key stages and subjects, not just all periods of history.

Tina Corri, Head of Education at English Heritage, said: “We are keen to make our resources as accessible as possible to teachers and Memory4teachers promises to be an innovative and practical way of achieving this. We are delighted to be involved with the campaign.”

English Heritage, the government’s non-departmental public body with a broad remit of managing the historic built environment of England.  Its best known role is as the steward of a large number of significant historical and archaeological sites. It has major responsibilities in conservation, giving advice, registering and protecting the historic environment and also maintains a public archive, the National Monuments Record (NMR).  The NMR holds over 10 milion photographs, plans, drawings and reports covering England’s archaeology, architecture, social and local history.