Schools

In this session pupils can see original images on their local area. These will include landmarks that are familiar to them, such as their school, a place of worships, a community space, and places close to their school.

This session involves two craft activities:

• Comparing pictures of then and now in groups
• A mapping exercise with copies of the collections and local maps of the area.

Duration: 1.5hrs

In this session pupils handle and explore images of homes in the East End over the last 100 years. This session also includes curriculum-based learning for both history and science, as pupils use a fun craft activity to find out which materials were used in homes of the past.

Duration: 1.5hrs 

How did industrialisation change the east end? How did working class inhabitants live? What was life like for women and children? All these themes are explored alongside a variety of original materials from the Victorian east end including maps, images, and workhouse registers.

Duration: 2 hrs

In this session pupils will explore key themes on the affects of WWI on the East End. Pupils will use a range of primary and secondary sources to cite and answer questions to broaden their learning. This session also includes some artefacts from our museum collections alongside primary sources from our library and archive collections.

Duration: 2 hrs

This popular session allows students to explore East End experiences in World War Two. The session follows curriculum topics including children’s experiences, women’s roles, and bomb damage in the East End. There is a special focus on topics with local relevance such as the Bethnal Green Tube Disaster, the largest loss of civilian life during the war. This session makes use of the huge variety of material we hold including many artefacts from our museum collection.

Duration: 2hrs

In this session pupils can discover the local connection to exploration, migration, and colonisation. Using original maps, illustrations, and archive material to reveal how important the East End was to these journeys across the globe. This session age appropriately highlights how central London was to the transatlantic slave trade, and how it profited in the trade. The session also covers the colonisation of the Bengal region, the recruitment of Lascars and some of their journeys to the East End. We use a range of archive library and museum collections to show how many different groups of people migrated to the East End in the 19^th and 20^th centuries including the Chinese and Somali communities.

Duration: 2hrs