Meet a character from history!
Our online workshops are a fantastic alternative to an in school workshop. Your class will have a one hour private Zoom livestream with a historical character from the period of your choice. Children will get to ask questions and interact with your character as though they were speaking through a magic portal! Hold your own workshop day with our additional activities both online and downloadable: dressing up ideas, period food recipes, online games and creative crafts with enough activities to keep your class busy for a full day! We keep our online visits to small groups so these can be as interactive as possible, but we can offer you repeat sessions on the same day for a reduced rate to cater to larger groups. We can even arrange for livestreams to be pre-recorded and sent to you! You send us your children’s questions and we create a personalised video just for your class.
Primary schools – Ks1 & Ks2
Great for All situations
A virtual visit is great for places where an in person workshop is impractical, such as:
- Schools with less space or time
- Remote or hard to reach places
- Groups with no venue of their own
- Special behavioural or medical units
- British schools overseas
Same fantastic experience on a budget!
You’ll get access to our additional activities, including art & crafts, creative writing, drama and role play, games and quizzes designed to keep the children busy for the rest of the day!
We can even show things on livestreams we can’t bring into schools – like our authentic Viking dogs!
All our usual topics plus:
We can also offer topics that are not available for full day workshops including:
- Florence Nightingale
- History of Medicine
- Tudor Alchemy
- Early Islam and medieval Baghdad
- Dragons!
Check out one of our additional activities:
Allies Vs Axis Drag & Drop activity from our WW2 Online Workshop:
Do you know who was fighting who in WW2?
Drag and drop the flags to guess which country was an ally or an enemy during WW2.
Click the check button to find out if you were right!
As ever, we are always happy to develop new workshops and characters, so if you don’t see what you want on the website, just give us a shout!
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Book a Virtual Visit with a historical character today!
Not looking for an online workshop? Click here to find out about our in-school workshops!
GCSE & A-Level
Are you looking to give your students and in depth view of a subject with an expert?
Your class will have a one-hour private Zoom livestream with a historical character of your choice, along with back up activities for the classroom. Students get to ask questions and interact with someone from whichever period of history you choose.
For older students we can also present “out of character” if preferred. Our visitors are bonafide experts in their fields, with PhDs, published authors and qualified teachers in our ranks. You may even have seen some of our visitors on TV as “talking heads” in historical documentaries for Netflix and the BBC!
Limited to one class (approximately 30 students) to keep the capacity for interactivity high, we can tailor the workshop precisely to your requirements. We can encourage your students to ask pertinent questions and use their deductive reasoning skills to dive deeper into topics across history, literature and STEM.
Just some of the specialist sessions we can offer are:
- Victorian Women and Literature
- History of Medicine
- Witchcraft and Magic
- The British Empire, Trade and Exploration
- WW2 – the Home Front
- WW2 – Women of the SOE
- Tudor Alchemy
- Queen Elizabeth I
- Florence Nightingale
- Mary Kingsley – Victorian Adventurer
- The Golden Age of Piracy
These are just some options – we are always happy to develop new workshops and characters, so if you don’t see what you want on the website, just give us a shout!
For more information please get in touch
International Schools
We offer live or pre-recorded digital workshops to schools all round the world. We can produce a bespoke film, incorporating questions from your children, and even video of them, provided by you, to make it more personal.
For more information or to discuss your requirements please get in touch.