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VAD Nurse Norton at Crich Edwardian Day

Are you teaching the Stone Age next term? Do you want a memorable start or finish to your children’s work? Let The History Van bring the Stone Age alive for you in your school – no coaches, no entrance fees – the ‘museum’ comes to you. Your children become local lead miners who find cavesContinue reading “Surviving the Stone Age and Beyond”

The History Van has been working at a very wide range of events commemorating WWI, the Great War: all the Infant and Junior pupils at Hope Primary School spent the day with Jenny discovering life in Hope Valley during WWI the start of the Women’s Institute (WI) during WWI was celebrated in Darley Dale withContinue reading “WWI – schools, residential homes, museums, villages, cathedrals … The History Van is there”