Tag: Education AudioSedition, transportation and treason: the case of the London Corresponding SocietyWednesday 27 June 2012How did a small group of men discussing democracy in the coffee houses of...VideoSessions for Schools: Noor Khan as a wireless operatorMonday 16 April 2012Noor Khan (played by actor Chandrika Chevli) talks about her experience as a wireless...VideoSessions for Schools: The case for the TradeSaturday 16 April 2011An 18th century slave trader (played by actor Andrew Ashmore) puts the case against...AudioEducation in 1911Friday 4 December 2009What was education like for the majority of children in 1911, the year when...AudioThe Truth is in Here: UFOs at The National ArchivesThursday 8 October 2009From ghost rockets in Scandinavia to mysterious spheres tracked over Eritrea, the Past Masters...AudioHow to win a duelThursday 8 October 2009A fight, possibly to the death, over a matter of honour this month. No,...AudioTwo Crowns, One King: Henry V and the Treaty of TroyesWednesday 7 October 2009The Past Masters team join Henry V in the battle for France. Henry fought...AudioDarwin’s voyage: HMS Beagle 1831-1836Wednesday 7 October 2009In 1831, in his twenties and fresh out of university, Charles Darwin set sail...AudioThe battle that frightened Churchill: the war in the AtlanticThursday 10 September 2009On 3 September 1939, the passenger liner Athenia was sunk by U30. So began...AudioPrison: five hundred years behind barsFriday 22 May 2009Edward Marston looks at the changing nature of imprisonment over the centuries and the...VideoThe real Little Dorrit: Charles Dickens and the debtors’ prison – British Sign Language videoFriday 28 November 2008David Thomas examines the reality behind Charles Dickens’ fiction – what were Victorian debtors’...AudioThe real Little Dorrit: Charles Dickens and the debtors’ prisonFriday 28 November 2008David Thomas examines the reality behind Charles Dickens’ fiction – what were Victorian debtors’... 1 2 »