History Detectives - discover World War 1 at the County Record Office - Warwickshire Heritage Learning

Workshop title	History Detectives - Discover World War 1 at the County Record Office
Key stage	2
Delivered at	Warwickshire County Record Office, Warwick
Duration	2 hours
Curriculum topics	History, English
Main focus	Interpretation and inference, historical sources, difference and significance.
Workshop outline	A mixed collection of documents is available to be examined covering the themes of the role of women in World War One, conditions on the Front, life back home and commemorating the fallen. See documents highlighting the role of the Red Cross, the enlisting of men and horses and the cases of conscientious objectors. Read postcards and letters sent home from the Front, as well as documents highlighting the effects on the Home Front. On the theme of peace and remembrance, see documents giving us a glimpse into the lives of injured and disabled soldiers after they were discharged.
Key skills covered	Chronological understanding Drawing conclusions about life in the past from different sources of information. Interpretation – talk about the types of written, visual and physical evidence that exist in museums and archives to tell us about the past. Historic enquiry – comparing/contrasting information, identifying and analysing evidence. Questioning evidence Group working Empathy with people living at the time of the First World War
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