Creative and digital making projects: age 5 – 7
The extraordinary people, places, events and ideas of the Age of Revolution are a great stimulus for artworks, creative writing, film, performance and digital makes.
We worked with schools and museums all over the country to create a set of tried-and-tested making projects to try in your own classrooms.
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How to make a revolutionary stop-motion animation
A simple, step-by-step guide to creating animations with your students
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How to make an interactive revolutionary cookbook
A guide to using the Book Creator tool to make your own digital books.
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How to design a quilt using digital collaging
A step-by-step guide to making an Abolition quilt using digital collaging techniques.
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Using museum collections as creative starters
Artists, writers, dramatists, film-makers, musicians – they all get their inspiration from somewhere. Ideas for using our Revolutionary collection and Themes as a creative stimulus.
A Revolutionary Collection
Our Revolutionary collection brings together objects, artworks, literature, archive materials and songs from museums and galleries across the UK. Each one is supported by information and fascinating facts to help you explore the different themes, people, events and ideas of the Age of Revolution.
Economic and technological revolution
Life-changing discoveries and innovations in scientific thinking, technology and medicine in the Age of Revolution, their impacts on work and society, and relationships with trade and the economy.
Social and cultural revolution
The movements for better working conditions, rights and representation for ordinary people, the campaign against transatlantic slavery, the migration of people within and beyond Britain, and the wave of artists, musicians and authors who reflected the period’s upheavals in works that still resonate and delight today.
Political revolution
From Mary Wollstonecraft, Thomas Paine and American Independence, to revolutionary France and Marx and Engels, enduring ideas about equality, rights and freedoms during the Age of Revolution, and some of their key proponents.
War and the international order
The wars precipitated by the struggles for independence and attempts at empire building that characterise the Age of Revolution, and their impact on the changing world map.