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
UNESCO is monitoring the closure of World Heritage Sites to the public during the pandemic. As of 3rd August, 34% are open, 40% closed and 26% partially open. However work… Read More »A Virtual Journey Around the World: Week 19
105 years ago, this week, British, Commonwealth, French and Turkish soldiers were in the midst of conflict at Suvla Bay on the Gallipoli Peninsula. One of these was Walter Ormonde… Read More »An Islander at Gallipoli
Great to see the Department of Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee in the UK’s report on the impact of Covid-19 published. The sentiment expressed by its Chairman hits the… Read More »A Virtual Journey Around the World: Week 18
Salt from Lymington (and elsewhere) became an integral part of a vast trading network across the Atlantic by the C18th. Driven by the wealthy merchant puppet masters in London and… Read More »The Atlantic Merchants
This week, one of the sites we ‘visited’ was the Kuk Swamp archaeological site in Papua New Guinea. Covid-19 cases have increased rapidly in this country over the past few… Read More »A Virtual Journey Around the World: Week 17