New on Learning Curve:

• Historic images now available on Flickr
  You can now see dozens of images from the collections of The National Archives on the Flickr site. We want your comments, tags and notes. We're also collecting any pictures you might have taken while visiting us to add to our new Flickr group. Come and join us.
  
  
• Suffragettes: Law-makers or law breakers?
  Key stage 3. Our free download materials for this education service videoconference are now available from this website.
  
  
• The Sinking of the Titanic
  Get beyond Winslet and DiCaprio to look at the real people aboard the infamous Edwardian liner. From the luxury of first class to cramped steerage cabins, find out where Titanic's passengers came from and what happened to them when the ship went down.
  
  
• Victorian Homes
  Rich and poor are again the theme in this key stage 1 to 2 lesson. Turn of the century maps, photographs and census records combine to give a sense of the huge class differences in late Victorian London.
  
  
• Trimdon - What was it like living in a Victorian mining town?
  One of our very first lessons has had a makover. Trimdon is a blueprint for key stages 1 to 2 students on how to build a local investigation from archival sources. How did Trimdon change over the 19th century and what can we discover about the people who lived there?
  
  
• New Podcast - The problem of the poor: faith, science and poverty in 19th century Britain
  Dr. John Shaw discusses Victorian attitudes to the poor and how they developed over the 19th century in this podcast recorded as part of our A level masterclass.
  The problem of the poor: faith, science and poverty in 19th century Britain (19.8mb)