The National Trails website is a site covering the 16 national managed trails across England and Wales. It contains route maps, pictures and guides. The trails include the England Coast Path. The site is glossy, colourful and beautiful, and there is a shop where you can buy official guides and maps. It has links to…
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British Museum – Resource Packs
UK home educators will almost certainly have heard of the British Museum. It’s one of the most famous of the London museums, although it’s outside the main Kensington museum area, being in Bloomsbury instead. The British Museum collections are, in many cases, historic artefacts collected during the time of the British Empire, and so there…
V&A Museum – Resource Packs
UK home educators will probably know about the V&A Museum. It’s in the Kensington museum district of London, and focuses on art and design – fashion, ceramics, culture and much more. The V&A generally has an Art & Design orientation, and the website tends to advertise the current exhibitions and displays rather than being easy…
English Heritage – Find Sites By Period
If you live in the UK, you’ll most likely be familiar with English Heritage. Along with the National Trust, they’re one of the two well-known organisations that manage many of England’s historic sites and buildings. What you may not know is that the English Heritage website lets you search their sites by historical period. That’s…