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
150 World Heritage Sites are currently discoverable on our resource, each with a brief introduction and link to a short video connecting you with a sense of people and places.… Read More »A Virtual Journey Around the World: Week 21
Angkor Wat is an international icon, made famous by a heady cocktail of inherent character, French imperial and archaeological fascination, World Heritage Site Status, and a dose of Lara Croft… Read More »Angkor Temples: Tangled Roots and Entangled Histories
Calling all geography teachers! Can you help? We would love to hear more about how you are planning to consider the impact of Covid-19 pandemic as a subject in the… Read More »A Virtual Journey Around the World: Week 20
With the Covid-19 pandemic both limiting travel horizons and providing a powerful reminder of global community, we have spent the last few months on a virtual journey visiting a World… Read More »Saving Our Planet’s Heritage