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Enhance your history studies with a free educational visit to this beautiful house near Leicester. It was once the wing of a palace owned by the Bishops of Lincoln and then became an alms-house used from the 1600’s to the 1930s. The church is next door and the picturesque village it is situated in will make it a valuable and inspiring day out for your pupils.
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Child Labour in the Lake District
Stott Park Bobbin Mill is located in an idyllic spot, but life was far from ideal for the ‘bobbin boys’ who worked there in the 19th century.
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Take a look behind the scenes and discover how English Heritage’s paintings conservators maintain and protect our fine art collection, both on site and in the studio.
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Placements are an opportunity to gain practical, hands-on experience working with our collections
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English Heritage and Historic England hold a Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) with the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). Every year, we offer AHRC-funded PhD studentships, co-supervised by English Heritage and Historic England experts.
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A visit to Roche Abbey can help students appreciate how Medieval monastic settlements worked, the effects of Tudor inspired religious changes and how abbeys became romantic ruins to enhance country estates in the 1800s.
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Book a free self-led visit to Pickering Castle and organise your day to suit your curriculum objectives. Immerse your class in the Norman world as they enter the site through the once well defended gatehouse. They can cross the bailey –the service area for the castle, and then enter the inner ward to ascend the motte to where the keep once stood. There is a fully reconstructed chapel for you to explore before descending into the ditch around the motte, which gives first-hand experience of the scale of the place. Can your class find the ovens and identify latrine chutes as they look around?
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This lovely Medieval priory is situated in a beautiful, tranquil valley on the banks of the river Derwent. A visit here could enhance art studies and geography fieldwork as well as Medieval themed history studies.
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Want some inspiration on how to spend some of your hard earned holiday? Look to the Romans. They really knew how to relax.
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Conservation science research underpins the decisions we make to control light, humidity, insects, mould, pollution, temperature, vibration and cleaning methods, all of which cause objects to deteriorate.