Whilst the activities you choose to use in your local history study will very much depend on the nature of the enquiries you are pursuing with your pupils, I still thought it would be useful to offer a list of some of the more creative ideas I have seen in the hope that they might inspire you to be even more creative!
1. Town trail
Pupils find evidence first-hand on a town trail, photograph and then research each. It might be a building, a plaque, a location, a mysterious landmark or even just a humble street of terraced houses. They then place them on an electronic timeline. They then draw conclusions about which period in the town’s past seems to have been best remembered.
2. Victorian family
Pupils select one notable Victorian family and research the members making use of the available digital sources online, notably the census returns which
