Our exciting work with the Isle of Wight Museums and Schools project is taking shape. Teachers can now discover 4 new digital history explorer maps on our website that support… Read More »New For Learning: Isle of Wight History Digital Explorer Maps
Discover the next story in our journey along the prehistoric Ridgeway Trail with Genista Astell and Eliza Ader. Many of the public footpaths in Britain we enjoy for leisure today… Read More »Uffington White Horse (1300 – 600 BC)
Seven museums on the Isle of Wight have collectively contributed over 200 artefacts from their collections about the Island’s history for us to map and create learning resources for schools… Read More »Silver Dollar: From Island Shipwreck to Andean Mountain Mine
This week we celebrate International Women’s Day. We want to share a story inspired by our current Isle of Wight Museums and Schools project. Blanche Thornycroft was one of the… Read More »In Search of Speed: Blanche Thornycroft
The ancient trackway following the high ridge of the hills, from which the name ‘Ridgeway’ stems, spans 85 miles from Buckinghamshire through to Wiltshire and is rich with history and… Read More »Wayland’s Smithy (3590 BC): Hiking the Ridgeway
Chinese New Year is heralded across the globe with the drum beats and flashes of colour associated with the flamboyant and athletic lion dance. 2021 is the Year of the… Read More »Beat of a Drum, Dance of a Lion
“Where are your monuments, your battles, martyrs? Where is your tribal memory? Sirs, in that grey vault. The sea. The sea has locked them up. The sea is History.” Derek… Read More »Shipwrecks: Underwater Echoes of the Past
During 1918-19, Joseph William Bowler was stationed in Egypt training to be an Observer in the Royal Flying Corps. He was a keen photographer who took the opportunity to travel… Read More »A WW1 Letter from Jerusalem
The Isle of Wight is a small island in the English Channel, separated from the mainland coast of England by a stretch of water known as the Solent and located… Read More »Isle of Wight Museums and Schools Project
The white ice sheets of Antarctica hold 60% of our planet’s fresh water. They cover a vast mysterious continent with a rich history reaching out over millions of years. Until… Read More »Explore the Wonderful Heritage of Antarctica
The Earth Museum is an experimental project with a long-term vision to develop powerful global citizenship learning resources for the home and the classroom. We have been working closely with… Read More »Evaluating Our WW1 Explorer Resource in the Classroom
To say that 2020 has been a challenging year globally is an understatement. As of today, 1,775,776 people have lost their lives around the world because of the Covid-19 virus.… Read More »Covid-19, World Heritage and a Shared Humanity