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Hughesovka - Welsh Migration and...
This resource invites learners to approach the history of Welsh industrialisation from a different perspective. The city of Hughesovka, today’s Donetsk in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine (former Russian Empire), was founded by Welsh and British workers. Using Hughesovka as a case study, the resource aims to enable learners to develop a more nuanced and critical perspective on the history of industrialisation in their country and to critically engage with archival material.Authors: Clara Defachel and Dr Victoria Donovan, University of St Andrews, Scotland. People’s Collection Wales.The source material (photographs and other images) within this resource comes from the Hughesovka Research Archive, held at the Glamorgan Archives, and these are reproduced here with their kind permission. Curriculum for WalesHumanitiesHistoryProgression Step: 3 & 4 Lifelong LearningThis resource provides opportunities for personal or professional development. See the Quick Links below for a collection of images to accompany this resource. Learning Activity PackThis resource provides learning activities for your students.

The Holocaust and Wales: Kindertransport 1
Fleeing across Europe to escape the Nazis, about 10,000 Jewish children arrived in Britain between December 1938 and September 1939 on the Kindertransport (children’s transport). The British government only admitted unaccompanied minors through this scheme, even though most of them had lived with their parents and other members of their families before their flight. In this collection of resources, we explore some of the stories of child refugees who came on the Kindertransport to Wales.Image above: Dorothy Fleming, aged four, standing in Rathauspark in Vienna. The photograph was taken in 1932. © From the collection at the National Holocaust Centre and Museum, UK. Kindertransport 1: Jewish life in Central Europe before the Second World War. This first resource explores the life of a young Austrian Jewish girl, Dorothy Fleming, before she arrived in Cardiff. This resource was produced as part of the 'Côf a lithr, llythyrau a geidw: creating Holocaust resources for Welsh schools' partnership project between Centre for the Movement of People (CMOP), Aberystwyth University, and Jewish History Association of South Wales/Cymdeithas Hanes Iddewig De Cymru (JHASW/CHIDC). The project is kindly supported by the Association of Jewish Refugees, Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust, Jewish Historical Society of England and Garfield Weston Foundation. Curriculum for WalesHealth and Wellbeing, Humanities, Languages, Literacy and CommunicationAge: 9-14 / Progression Step: 3 & 4 Learning Activity PackThis resource provides learning activities for your students using our website. It is one of a series of 4 on the topic of 'Kindertransport’. Here are links to the other resources in this series:Kindertransport 2Kindertransport 3Kindertransport 4 See the Quick Links below for content to accompany this resource.

Heritage Preservation Toolkit
Preserving and sharing your historical documentsThe Jewish History Association of South Wales / Cymdeithas Hanes Iddewig De Cymru (JHASW / CHIDC) was established in November 2017 with the aim to uncover, document, preserve and share the tangible and intangible cultural heritage of the Jewish communities of south Wales.These documents form part of a Heritage Toolkit which will enable small communities and organisations to take the first steps towards preserving and sharing their heritage, even if they have no experience in this field.Glamorgan Archives has been a long-term partner for many JHASW/CHIDC projects and contributed these documents as part of a joint project (together with People’s Collection Wales) for the Welsh Government funded Coronavirus Recovery Grant For Volunteering 2020/21. This resource contains guidance on: Preserving your historical material at your local archivesGuidelines for Listing records prior to deposit at Glamorgan ArchivesDocument Handling - General Principles Sharing your historical material on People's Collection WalesHow to create a People's Collection Wales catalogue for Tangible MaterialCopyright - a very brief introduction Further parts of the toolkit can be found on our website at www.jhasw.com/heritage-toolkit. Lifelong LearningThis resource is for adult learners and provides opportunities for personal or professional development. Learning Activity PackThis resource provides learning activities to help you develop new skills and knowledge. See the Quick Links below for content to accompany this resource.

How to upload to People's Collection Wales
Would you like to contribute your content to People's Collection Wales? Not quite sure how to get started? Watch our short video below, then read our easy to follow How To guides to learn how to register an account, upload and publish.Teachers: The skills developed when creating an account and uploading items to People's Collection Wales fulfil many of the requirements of the Digital Competence Framework. Read more in our Teachers Toolbox. Curriculum for WalesDigital Competence Framework Age: 8-16 / Progression Step: 3, 4 and 5 Lifelong LearningThis resource provides opportunities for personal or professional development.

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Canals, Railways & Ports - Transport for...

The Linton Brothers

Shops and Shopkeepers
Shops, their owners and the high street. Often central to the lives of towns and villages across Wales. Today, many are in decline, why not add photos and memories of your local village or corner shop? Curriculum for WalesHumanitiesAge: 8-11History Learning CollectionWe have collected these items together so that you can quickly and easily use them as resources to create activities for your class.

Swansea in the 1960s

Leisure time 1960s

Celebrations 1960s

Clothes 1960s

Transport 1960s

Food and farming 1960s

Houses and Homes 1960s

Education 1960s

Twentieth Century Welsh Artists

Using aerial photographs

Homes in the 1950s
After WW2 many thousands of houses had to be built quickly, to give people homes after bombing and slum clearance.These were constructed using new materials and gave work to the unemployed. Grants improved existing houses, e.g. building inside bathrooms. Curriculum for WalesHumanitiesAge / Progression Step: AllHistory Learning CollectionWe have collected these items together so that you can quickly and easily use them as resources to create activities for your class.

Buckley Pottery

Chapel Photographs to support 'Look Out...
A collection of chapel images to support a learning resource on Hwb. The resource on Hwb was created by the Swansea Network Project and it is called 'Look Out There’. Curriculum for WalesHumanitiesAge / Progression Step: AllHistory, Religious Education Learning CollectionWe have collected these items together so that you can quickly and easily use them as resources to create activities for your class.

The Woollen Industry

The Dairy Industry

Cockle Industry in South West Wales

The Slate Industry
The spectacular rise of the slate industry in north-west Wales began in the late 18th century, and reached its greatest scale in the late 19th century.In this resource you will find several collections of images, objects and stories relating to slate mining in Wales. This includes 'The End of the Line'; a collection of oral histories gathered in a series of intergenerational digital story-telling sessions held at the National Slate Museum in 2009. In these films, recorded in Welsh and English, people share their memories of the period when the Dinorwig quarry closed in 1969. Curriculum for WalesHumanitiesAge / Progression Step: AllHistory Learning CollectionWe have collected these items together so that you can quickly and easily use them as resources to create activities for your class.

Children's toys

John Piper Project: Ysgol Moelfre

John Piper Project: Ysgol Bodedern

John Piper Workshop

War's Hell! - The Battle of Mametz Wood in...
Art inspired by the battle of Mametz Wood. This pack contains tasks based on the artwork, along with information about the works. There are also links to collections of items relevant to Mametz Wood on our website. Curriculum for WalesExpressive Arts, Humanities, Languages, Literacy and Communication, Digital Competence FrameworkArt, HistoryAge: 8-14 / Progression Step: 3 & 4 Learning Activity PackThis resource provides learning activities for your students using our website. See the Quick Links below for content to accompany this resource.

Case Study: Io Saturnalia!
The history of Saturnalia, the Roman mid-winter festival. The video in this teaching pack was created by Somerton Primary School as part of Kids in Museums Takeover Day 2016. You can find a link to the video below, as well as a link to a collection of objects selected by the School on their visit and a story to find out a little more about the Roman mid-winter festival of Saturnalia.The attached resources can help you create your own videos. They include a template storyboard, and some example scenes and lines that were used for creating the Saturnalia video. Curriculum for WalesHumanities, Language, literacy and communication, Digital Competence FrameworkHistoryAge: 8-11 / Progression Step 3 Case StudySee how other schools have used our website to give you ideas for your own digital projects.

Life on the Western Front
Interactive iBook about life on the Western Front during the First World War. There is also a PDF version (not interactive) if you don't have access to iOS (Apple). Curriculum for WalesExpressive Arts, Humanities, Languages, Literacy and Communication, Digital Competence FrameworkArt, HistoryAge: 8-11 / Progression Step: 3 Learning Activity PackThis resource provides learning activities for your students using our website. See the Quick Links below for content to accompany this Teaching Resource.

John Piper - The Mountains of Wales
Discover the dramatic landscapes of north Wales. Study John Piper's paintings, locations and techniques with the learning resource and activity booklet. Curriculum for WalesExpressive Arts, Humanities, Languages, literacy and communicationGeography, Famous Welsh PeopleAge: 8-14 / Progression Step: 3 & 4The activity suggestions are targeted primarily at Progression Step 3 and 4 pupils but can also be adapted for older or younger students. Learning Activity PackThis resource provides learning activities for your students using our website.

Victorian Swansea - Counting Heads
Who were the Victorians of Swansea? How can we find out about the people who lived and worked in Swansea Town in the middle of the 19th century? Was Swansea a smart progressive Victorian seaside resort with the latest transport connections or a smoke-filled overcrowded industrial town with slums, docks, cholera and bad drains? Or something in between? Look at extracts from the 1851 Swansea Town census to help answer these questions. Watch fascinating re-enactment videos to bring Victorian Swansea to life for your pupils. Curriculum for WalesHumanities, Languages, Literacy and Communication, Digital Competence FrameworkHistoryAge: 8-11 / Progression Step: 3 Learning Activity PackThis resource provides learning activities for your students using our content. It is one of a series of 3 relating to 'Victorian Swansea' for Progression Step 3. See the Quick Links below for content to accompany this Teaching Resource.