Tagged with Age 7-11
Resource : Historical enquiries
Historical enquiries for all ages exploring the Age of Revolution – from transport, the industrial revolution and Captain Cook’s shopping list, to campaigns, protests, revolutionary ideas and the French revolution.
Resource : True or false?
Revolutionary facts and figures - can students fool their classmates?
Resource : Twitter campaigns
How might the Chartists or the Abolitionists have used Twitter in their campaigns for political and social revolution?
Resource : Talking about a revolution
Use a simple app to make an object or artwork speak - what might they have to say about their owner or maker, where they’ve been, what they’ve seen…?
Resource : Objects personified!
Using historical objects to fire imaginations…what if it could hear, smell, talk? What might it get up to in its spare time? What secrets might it tell us?
Resource : Mystery objects
What were these revolutionary objects really used for? Classroom games to test students’ powers of deduction – and trickery!
Resource : Looking closely at images
How many details can students see – and remember? What do they tell us about the past?
Resource : Jigsaws
Cut up a revolutionary object or image and mix it up. Can you put it back together?
Resource : Green screening
Students use a simple green screen app to transport themselves back in time to a revolutionary event.
Resource : Activities
Simple ideas, tips and activities for students of all ages, bringing the Age of Revolution to life through revolutionary objects, paintings, letters and songs from museums and galleries across the UK.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.