Case Studies
Case studies demonstrate how Historic England's resources can be used inside and outside the classroom.
Case studies demonstrate how Historic England's resources can be used inside and outside the classroom.
Around our School: Liverpool
Children from Year Two studied the history of West Derby Village, now a suburb of Liverpool, over the last 100 years.
Heritage Schools Case Study: Why is the Hippodrome such a special building?
Pupils research the history of the Hippodrome and take part in circus skills workshops as they re-live its heyday.
Heritage Schools Case Study: Enriching The List, Enriching Learning
School children learn about their local listed buildings.
Heritage Schools Case Study: What Was Life Like In Anglo-Saxon Bristol?
Children discover how their local area could have been settled by the Anglo-Saxons and what archaeology can tell us about the past.
Heritage Schools Case Study: Our Place - Local Area Characterisation
Primary school children used maps and worked with a planner and an architect to decide what is significant in their local area.
Heritage Schools Case Study: Why are so many of our street names linked to an Oxford College?
Primary school children research their local estate which leads to a 3 day residential visit to Oxford working with the archivist at Magdalen College.
Heritage Schools Case Study: What was the Watchet Tragedy?
Children visit a headstone and use the historic environment record and archive newspapers to uncover a tragic story.
Heritage Schools Case Study: Belle Vue - Showground of the world!
A whole school project in which students discovered the amazing story of Belle Vue entertainment complex.
Heritage Schools Case Study: Finding out about the soldiers of Cavendish Primary School
KS2 students used primary sources to investigate lives of soldiers, who died in the First World War, and who are remembered on their school memorial.
Heritage Schools Case Study: Remembering Together
Schools collected soldiers' names from local war memorials and used online research to build up a picture of their lives and held a remembrance event.
Heritage Schools Case Study: Local Study and Women's Rights
A primary school researched the story of their locality and found an interesting story about a Women’s Rights Activist.
Heritage Schools Case Study: Rockliffe Remembers
KS2 pupils research the school during WWI and link with the national centenary commemorations.
Heritage Schools Case Study: Ketley School's history and the Industrial Revolution
KS2 pupils used a visit to the old school building and a heritage walk to build a detailed picture of Ketley’s past and industrial history.
Heritage Schools Case Study: Window on the World
Children took part in a workshop to learn about the historical importance of a museum locality through the creation of a large scale map.
Heritage Schools Case Study: Producing a film 'Exploring Your Coal Mining Heritage'
A Case Study showing how ex-miners and children worked together to share their knowledge about coal mining
Heritage Schools Case Study: 'What is special about our village?'
A two day investigation into the local heritage of Crowcombe village in West Somerset.
Exploring your local gas heritage
Uncover evidence of your local gas heritage, including where it was made and how it was used to light the way.
Heritage Schools Case Study: What makes a housing estate special?
KS2 students used a social-history photographic collection to learn more about their local heritage. They also undertook an oral history project.
Heritage Schools Case Study: Dewsbury Beeline Heritage Trail
Students and teachers learnt about their town’s local heritage and status as a Heritage Action Zone by taking part in the creation of a Heritage Trail
Heritage Schools Case Study: Building Coventry Cathedral
Children took part in a workshop to learn about the importance of Coventry Cathedral as a Place of Worship through viewing photography collections.
Heritage Schools Case Study: Building the London Central Mosque
KS2 pupils used the John Laing Photographic Collection and an oral history approach to learn more about a significant place of worship.
Heritage Schools Case Study: Creating Digital Interactives
Year 6 children at The Hall School, Leicestershire, were given the challenge of creating interactive digital content about the Stone Age.
Heritage Schools Case Study: Our Dagenham - How was the area?
Year 9 students explored the area using maps and aerial photographs then took a trail to develop their awareness of continuity and change in Dagenham.
Heritage Schools Case Study: The architecture of Wallsend
Pupils from Burnside School learned how to identify and record key historical architectural features in their town of Wallsend.
Heritage Schools Case Study: Wythenshaw in World War One
Students at Manchester Health Academy investigated the significance of their local FWW memorial and the experience of one soldier remembered on it.
Heritage Schools Case Study: Dewsbury Beeline Heritage Trail
Students and teachers learnt about their town’s local heritage and status as a Heritage Action Zone by taking part in the creation of a Heritage Trail