Resources Boxes
History belongs to everyone. We want every child to have the chance enjoy being curious, learn by exploring and touching artefacts, or to enjoy just having a go!
Borrowing boxes is £10 a week, with a £10 refundable deposit. Email us to book, for more information or to hear about our School Visits programme.
We have a range of resource boxes to for schools and home educators to borrow and all boxes include a folder full of fun, omplimentary activities that can be photocopied and used in the classroom.
Victorian Childhood
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Fun with replica Victorian toys and games. Play like a Victorian child with a box of Victorian style toys. What toys are similar, and what toys are different? Accompanying activities include some Victorian playground games, job descriptions for children and cards to help children explore the toys.
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Victorian Domestic Life
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This box is full of real Victorian artefacts from the home. Handle the Victorian items and see how they are similar (or different) to modern domestic items. All items are real 19th or early 20th Century unless stated. Activities in the resource pack include a Victorian through the keyhole, some Victorian recipes to try out at home, and how to stitch your own sampler.
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World War One
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This box has real and replica items from Ilkeston people's war, replica items to touch and discover, with books on life at the Front and local experiences.
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World War Two
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Explore the life of an evacuee through their personal suitcase or even sign up to help protect Erewash as an Air Raid Warden. This box contains real and replica items and documents in addition to a variety of cross curricular activities that will have you singing, cooking, and acting just like those on the home front.
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Stone Age Life
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With real stone age flints from around the Erewash region and replica items related to hunting, cutting, carrying and living. Discover how the ingenious Stone Age people survived by using the world around them. This box contains fun activities which include you to become a Stone Age estate agent and to design your own unique cave painting.
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Roman Life
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With this box experience everyday items from Roman life. Find out how kept themselves clean and tidy, how they counted their money, how their wore their shoes, played with toys, and wrote on wax tablets. Challenge yourself with some of our Roman maths activities or test your geographical skills by locating Roman cities on a map of Britain.
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Roman Soldiers and Leaders
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Explore the violent and dramatic side of Roman life with replica items that the roman generals and leaders might own. Dress as a soldier or a politician. See replica jewellery and high class objects.
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Ancient Egypt
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Experience replica objects from the Egyptian world. See sculptures of the Egyptian gods, amulets, see and touch their jewellery, statues, food, their make-up and their papyrus.
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Saxon and Vikings
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Borrow this box to see replica objects from the life of the similar, but very different, Vikings (Norse) and Saxons. Included are examples of their pottery, jewellery, weaponry, games, ropes, chainmail and rune stones.
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Aztec and Mayan
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Experience the mysterious and fascinating Aztecs and Mayan culture. See and touch, the calendar stones, the writing and the sculptures of the Mayans and Aztec people.
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At The Seaside
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Oh I do like to be beside the Seaside! Take a trip to the beach to learn about seaside holidays from the past. Contains:
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Toys
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Learn about how toys have changed from the 1950s to the present day. Have fun and learn whilst playing! Contains:
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