This is the third in our Heritage Schools autumn teacher training series exploring how you can enhance your curriculum using a range of Historic England and partner resources

Who lived and worked in our local area? This webinar will introduce teachers to historical directories and what details they can provide about the people, businesses and local organisations such as schools and churches in your local area over a century ago. It will also demonstrate how this information can be used to start a census investigation of your locality.

The free session is aimed at teachers of KS1-KS3 pupils.

The session, presented by Martin Phillips, from Historic England’s Heritage Schools Programme, will include:

• Introduction to how to find and download historical directories such as Kelly’s

• How directories are slightly different for villages, towns and large cities

• An overview of the kind of information contained in these directories and how they can inform our understanding of an area

• How the directories can provide a starting point for a census investigation to finding out more about the people who lived in our area

NOTE: This event is for teachers. You must register for this event using your school/professional email address.

Please only register if you know you can attend this event, if you can't make the webinar for any reason, then please cancel your place.

Please join this event 5 minutes before the start time so that we can begin promptly.

DATA PROTECTION: We need to collate data on the number of schools /teachers attending as part of our funding requirement. Names and email addresses will be deleted after the event.

SAFEGUARDING: The session will be recorded for safeguarding purposes only and the recording will be deleted after the event.

Registrations are closed

How to Enhance your Local History Curriculum: Trade Directories & Census