Using Documentsand Local History

Starter pictures, maps, what we might see our on our Winchester

walk

The story so far, key ideas from last time….

• History is about story and methodology

• People in time –Identities, culture, bias

• Change and continuity, same and different

• Cause and consequence, why what next

• Chronology- what was it like, when

• Empathy- problems faced, beliefs

• Evidence, authenticity

• Enquiry, creative outcomes

An approach to History Enquiry

1 Significant area locate learning intentions- content/process ( implies subject knowledge and pedagogic)

2 motivation- hook, challenge, problem, possible outcome, product

3Information collecting (A4L) and research , documents , pictures, artefacts, internet, story authenticity is important

4 Making sense of the evidence, classify, sequence, key points ( Thinking skills Bloom, Fisher)

5 children give reasons for ideas, demonstrate understanding e.g. through role play

6 teacher checks understanding, tests ideas, add new ideas, points of view, questions

7 Pupils create imaginative product- which shows achievement of success criteria

Aims for Today

• Why use documents ?• What is a document ?• Where to find Documentary resources • Documents in NC context, Rose Review• Ideas for working with documents to support

learning- content and methodology• Local Study starting points and ideas• History in the Environment, cross curricular

links

Rationale eg What was Winchester like in Victorian times

• Content information about • Eg local Study• Theme• Period• Person ( Significance , representitiveness,

values, beliefs, issues)• Methodology• Historical Enquiry- the Enquiry context• 4a-find out from a range of sources• 5a select organise

Skills that using documents can foster

• Awareness of context• Observation• Skimming and scanning• Comprehension• Rank in order of importance• Enquire• Compare • Check• Interpret analyse• Reason from evidence• Hypothesise• Evaluate• Frame questions• Communicate• Discuss

• Period characteristics• Empathy• Bias, point of view,

stereotypes

• All these are NC Skills too !• These are thinking skills too!• Enquiry ( set up well ) lets

children take charge of learning

Kinds of Document

• Bills, advertisements, tickets, ephemera• war memorials plaques, brasses, graves, street names

• Wills, inventories• Diaries, letters• Maps and plans• Census www.learningcurve.gov.uk • Trade directory, Phone book• Newspapers magazines• Parish registers• School Records

Advertisements- Britain Since 30s

NC ( and beyond) periods and themes

Local History- people places events

Local famous people

Effect of national events

Prehistoric settlers

Civil war

Work Play Health Crime

Norman conquest

Buildings Cathedrals Castles

Settlement, population

Special events

KS 1

• My life• Grandparents• Buildings schools• Toys and games• Holidays• Famous People• Gunpowder plot• Past events• Fire of London

KS 2 other themes- some sources for documentary evidence

• Romans (recipes, accounts poems letters Historians eg Tacitus)

• Saxons (Anglo Saxon Chronicle, Bede, Lindisfarne Gospels)

• Vikings (runes) Orkneyinga Saga, Egils Sage Nuffield

• Haramal sayings of the Vikings• Tudors – parish records,

inscriptions accounts legal records

Significant individuals Armada, Exploration Shakespeare, Guy Fawkes Rich and Poor

Victorians

Links to

Famous peoplePoor WorkHealth ChildrenTransportEducation BuildingsWomen- eg Mary Kingsley ExplorersArt and Literature( a wealth of official records etc)

Evidence from map activity

• Look at Maps and picture in your pack

• Sort maps in chronological order

• Look at the picture..• What do you infer from the

evidence?• Change and continuity?• What is significant• What doesn’t it tell you ?• What questions are prompted?• How could this fit in with a local

or thematic enquiry

• Audio Visual Documents

• Eg. Women in the Twentieth Century – a Hampshire perspective- HRO

• HRO Schools in Film and Photos

• BFI ( 2003) Film as Evidence Britain in 1900

Investigate Egmont - Bloom’s construct

• Interpret Egmont or Medecroft evidence-

• see how the processes you go through move from lower to higher order thinking ( compare with your crib sheet.

• What does this tell us about Victorian Winchester – what can we infer?

Activity A• Stockbridge Road used to be really posh! True or False?• Compare Stockbridge Road census data for 1881 and 1891-• What kind of jobs were being done?• What work was being done by women?• Can you find any of the same people?• What do you infer from this?• What questions arise about the people? Do you think people

had bigger families in 1881 and 1891?• Did much change in that decade?• Use your other documents to build information about the area,

change, continuity social character.• What further questions might you ask, what further research

might you undertake?

• Activity B

• Using St Swithun’s street data census, directory etc• St Swithun’s street used to be much busier than now. True

or false?• Find out who lived there in 1881, what jobs people did. • Do you think people moved a lot /• What jobs were done by women –any differences between

married and unmarried women. Were there any businesses?• Were any children at work?• Did children go to school?• How many people were born in Winchester, Hampshire and

else where?• Can you decide on some changes in the buildings from looking

at your maps?• What do you infer from this?

Activity C

• Discussion Which was the nicer place to live in 1881 Stockbridge Road, St Swithun’s Street of Egmont Support your claims with evidence.

• What have we learned about Winchester in Victorian times… what else could we research

• How could we show our knowledge?

• Reflect on rationales/ contexts/ strategies for using documents

Where to get resources

• Libraries local studies sections – in old photos books• Southampton City Archives Service 02380 832251• Hampshire Record Office 01962 878681

Nb audio visual materials including oral history

• Specific and general AESOP packs * • http://www3.hants.gov.uk/archives/archive-education • NB Whiz kid – !CT initiative• Portsmouth Museums and Record service• Dorset, Wiltshire

Artefacts and Hants packs Hampshire History centre 02392377546

Notes re Types of Record• Census every 10 yrs since 1801 except1941 NB

www.learningcurve - working with the census• Pre 1841 limited data• on micro fiche- access issues• Handwriting, spelling• Trade directories• Maps• OS from 1795 1840 most of England scales inch to mile 6 ,25

inches to a mile• Printed maps from Tudor period• Tithe maps mid C19• Enclosure maps, estate maps, defence building plans

Trade directories• From 1780s up to 1960s• Like phone book/ yellow pages• Pay for your entry• Printed, similar format

Parish Registers from1538• Births marriages deaths• Variable

School Log books• From 1862• Other school records (film)

History in the Environment

• School building and others• Church Churchyard- war memorials• Street signs, house nos.• Statues Plaques- Jubilee cottages etc• Windows, doors etc• Bricks Lamp posts Drains, post boxes, materials

• Photo trail –how to look-I spy*• Rubbings, drawing notes• Cross curricular links eg Geography-why here? Art, IT

drama … etc…etc