With a population of just 7,000 people, East Cowes on the Isle of Wight is a small town with a big history. Home to Osborne House, the summer palace of… Read More »East Cowes: Home of Shipbuilders and Royalty
Imagination is a never-ending source of inspiration. But what of the real places and people of the World and the detailed heritage marks they make in our landscapes and museums?… Read More »The Earth Museum: Dive In and Explore
Just outside Ryde on the Isle of Wight is a derelict and abandoned holiday park known as Harcourt Sands. It is situated on what was once the vast grounds of… Read More »The Wight Knight Who Saved Alice: Augustus Vernon Harcourt
We talk about the importance of invention, innovation, creativity, enterprise and clean growth in the social and economic recovery of our country, post-Covid. But these are just words which mean… Read More »Electric Pioneer: John Peter Gassiot
Heritage and the arts come together in this unique vision for fighting back against the social and economic impact of coronavirus in our seaside towns. Theirs is a fragile economy,… Read More »A Coastal Call To Arms – The Back and Fill Festival
A final story for the moment inspired by our work with Gosport and Fareham Multi-Academy Trust on creating KS3 learning resources about World War 1 and global citizenship. Charlotte Edith… Read More »Ours Is A History of Warriors: Charlotte Edith Anderson Monture
140,000 Chinese farmers and students worked in terrible conditions on the battlefields of World War 1 for the British and French armies. Almost 2,000 gave their lives digging trenches and… Read More »From Chinese Wheat Fields to the Battlefields of WW1
100 years ago this month, Lance Corporal Joseph Alexander Wilmerdinge Peterson died of injuries sustained on the battlefield during World War 1. In this week’s story, we discover more about… Read More »Remembering: Joseph Alexander Wilmerdinge Peterson
One of the objectives of ‘The Last Goodbye’ learning resource is to share with students an essence of the multiple perspectives and cultural intersections involved in World War 1. Any… Read More »The Ottoman Craftsmen of Çanakkale Savasi
Do history, heritage and museum collections have value in the school curriculum for enabling students to explore themes around social justice and global citizenship? This is a question we are… Read More »The Last Goodbye: Personal Experiences of WW1
Since the start of April 2020, we have been virtually travelling the world, one country at a time to visit many of the planet’s unique UNESCO World Heritage Sites. During… Read More »The Zimbabwe Bird
Museum collections around the world contain cultural artefacts and natural history specimens acquired during the C19th and C20th from places now designated as World heritage Sites. Here at The Earth… Read More »Collecting the Indus Valley Civilisation