Marvellous History offer a variety of different services as well as our educational history workshops for children. All of our visitors are experts in their fields, and our visitors artefact and replica collections are kept to a very high standard.
Museum Services
Historical visits are not just for schools. We can provide knowledgeable experts either in costume or out, to educate and entertain your visitors.
Ideal for school holiday programmes, we can offer a great selection of activities for visitors of all ages. We will bring our own replica artifacts for your visitors to handle, saving your precious resources. For some historical periods we can also demonstrate a range of crafts and skills that the public can then try for themselves.
We can also offer specialist talks on areas of daily life, and for the younger visitors, interactive storytelling and even warrior training!
If you’re interested in providing a live interactive session to your visitors, or you have other ideas you would like us to present, then please contact us to discuss your requirements.
Inset Days
If you’re looking for something new and different for an INSET day, why not invite us in for a history focused session based around the KS2 Anglo Saxons and Vikings requirement? We can offer anything from demonstration activities to curriculum advice or team building exercises with a historical theme. We can turn your classroom into a longhouse! We can throw your teachers in the deep end and have them remember what it’s like to learn new skills from scratch!
Team building examples
- Light a fire with flint and steel, cook a meal
- Produce an Anglo Saxon clay pot
- Make ink from scratch, write a manuscript
- Storytelling: legends from Viking times
- Spin and weave wool to make fabric
- Grind flour, make bread, churn butter
- Learn battle formations and strategies
Curriculum examples
- Society and citizenship through history
- Diversity and equality
- Timelines and the concept of time
- Creative development through art & literature
- Codebreaking and foreign languages
- Research and sources
- Using external visitors
Activity examples
- Drama: myths & legends
- PE: Viking Games & sports
- How do we know about…?
- Archaeological methods
- Make your own museum
- Literacy and numeracy in Viking times
- Trade and economics
- Geography and travel
If you’re interested in having a historical visitor run sessions on your inset day, please get in touch!
Universities
If you are involved in University level teacher training whether at BEd, PGCE or an alternative, what better way to show the benefits of external visitors than actually having them come to give a lecture?
Many subjects in the Primary Curriculum lend themselves bringing external experts into the classroom, especially in sports, arts and humanities. Most schools these days are used to working with outside musicians, football coaches, dance teachers etc. for both in- and out-of-hours activities, often on a regular basis. But what about using a one-off visitor to help with your history topic?
Having someone come to the school to run a history workshop/activity day, can really engage the children in a way a museum can’t. They will be allowed to handle the objects, try their hand at crafts, ask all the questions they could ever wish to ask, and have the whole day immersed in the topic rather than spending two hours getting to and from the museum, trying to see crowded, glass-defended displays and then forgetting their packed lunch on the coach.
To discuss the possibility of a visitor giving a talk to your group, please fill out the form at the bottom of this page.
Lectures & Heritage Talks
All our visitors are experts in their fields, and are available to for lectures and talks. These can be completely tailored and can be run at a level that requires no prior knowledge, or can build on previous study.
Whether you are a small local history group looking for something different, or are running a course and looking to include a guest lecturer, we can put together a lecture to suit your requirements.
For more information please do contact us
Hire a Visitor
Our visitors are also available to hire for a variety of other events. Here are just a few examples of the types of events our visitors can run for you:
- Events & Festivals
- Youth & Holiday Clubs
- Parties
- Team building sessions
- Films
Get in touch
If you’re interested in any of the other services that our visitors can provide please fill out the below form with some details about the kind of even you are running and what services you are looking for and we’ll get back to you to discuss the options: