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Museum Resources		Hertfordshire Archives & Library Services (HALS)
The Victorians	KS3 Teaching Resources
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The Victorians

On-line Investigations into Life in Hertfordshire in the 1890's. Key Stages 2 and 3 resources from Stevenage, Tring and Hoddesdon. Find out more...

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Hertfordshire Archives & Library Services (HALS)

Hertfordshire Archives & Local Studies (HALS), based at County Hall in Hertford, has a wide range of resources to assist in the teaching of history, geography and local studies. These include original records of local authorities, schools, manors and estates, businesses and families etc. in Hertfordshire, as well as printed and published materials - books, newspapers, maps and photographs etc. Find out more...

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History Sources Packs

Resource packs from HALS are available on a wide range of historical topics for example:

• Public Health in Hertford 1830 – 1850 (the Cholera Epidemics of 1832 and 1848/9) Includes extracts from the Hertford census of 1851 and parish burial registers, photographs, correspondence, newspaper cuttings, map etc.
• Hertfordshire in War and Peace 1938 – 1946 Includes photographs, newspaper cuttings and documents concerning the
  preparations for war, evacuation, the Home Guard, invasion plans, a spy in Hertfordshire, air raid precautions, bomb damage, rationing, British Restaurants, women and the war effort, paying for the war, and victory celebrations.
• Child Labour in Nineteenth Century Hertfordshire Includes documents relating to child employment in the silk industry, papermaking, straw plaiting, agriculture, brickmaking, and chimney sweeping.

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Museum Resources

Hertfordshire Museums

A list of Hertfordshire museums can be found at:

• www.hertsmuseums.org.uk

St Albans Museums

A wide variety of workshops, artefact handling sessions and tours for schools are run at both the Museum of St Albans and Verulamium Museum. In addition there are useful online resources for teachers on the museum web site:

• www.stalbansmuseums.org.uk

Dacorum Heritage Trust

The Dacorum Heritage Trust is a Accredited Museum with collections covering the whole of Dacorum. Visit the Resources for schools page on their website:

• www.dacorumheritage.org.uk

They can provide Object Loan Boxes:

Victorian Object Loan Box and Archive Resources
Hemel Hempstead New Town Object Loan Box and Archive Resources
Rationing during the Second World War Object Loan Box
Home Front - Second World War Object Loan Box
Life through the eyes of Lefevre Cranstone - a Victorian Quaker artist from Hemel Hempstead. Includes authentic objects and costumes
Recreate an archaeological Dig with Roman pottery and sand
They can also provide a number of display panels for loan related the history of the local area.

'Digging for Victory in Dacorum' is a resource pack for schools based on an exhibition about the Home Front during the Second World War. This 85 page, A4 booklet with 81 illustrations includes sections on:

Countdown to War
Civil Defence
Evacuation
The Land Army
Rationing
Bovingdon Airfield
War Work
Dickinson's War Work

This local history resource is available for £10.00 from the Museum Store.

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