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Age Groups for Local Studies

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Bedale 19th and 20th Century Painters and Decorators Examining the Bucktrout and Firth businesses of Bedale More >	Bradford's Industrial Revolution Tracking a city's industrial and social change More >
Campaigners Make an Impact in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Using Yorkshire's History to Change Your World More >	China in Yorkshire Take a look at some of the chinese objects we have in Yorkshire! More >
Coal Mining and the Victorians Life underground for children working in Victorian England More >	Creative Writing at Sandal Castle Using ruins, artefacts, documents and imagination! More >
Crime and Punishment - Sophia Constable The crime and punishment of an 11 year old Victorian 'young offender' More >	Entertainment and Hobbies in the 1950s Find out what people did in their spare time in the 1950s More >
Family Life in the 1950s What life was like for families and children in the 1950s More >	Fashion in the 1950s What did people wear in the 1950s? Who were the icons of the time? More >
First World War stories from the Wakefield District Stories of local people who served their country in WWI More >	Folk Art and The Whalers Learn about Scrimshaw and how to develop research skills More >
Food in the 1950s Take a look at what people grew, cooked and ate post-WWII in Yorkshire More >	Goathland as a Contrasting Locality An example of a good 'contrasting locality' for KS2 Geography More >
History Around Hull Explore the development of Hull through a journey down its historic High Street More >	History of Leeds - Poverty and Riches How the rich and poor lived in Leeds from the 17th Century to 1900s More >
Ink or Swim Young designers get inspired by Hull Museums collections More >	Investigating the History of a House Generic methods of exploring the history of a country house More >
Leeds in World War II Leeds affected by air raids and citizens protecting themselves More >	Local History Pack - A how to guide Tips and Sources for Local History research More >
Louis Le Prince About Louis Le Prince who invented the first moving image camera More >	M&S - Homegrown Expansion in Leeds Modernisation in Leeds stores from the 1930s More >
M&S Underwear A brief look at the development of M&S undergarments More >	Metalwork in Sheffield An introduction to Sheffield´s metalwork industry with short films More >