Treasure House Education Officer
The Treasure House Education Officer can be contacted by schools, colleges and other groups regarding workshops and Treasure House tours or for advice about linking Treasure House materials with education-based projects.
The Treasure House Education Officer can be contacted on 01482 392733.
Teacher training events can be booked through the East Riding School Improvement Service when available.
Today's Citizens, Past Lives at Beverley
Today's Citizens, Past Lives at Beverley is a learning resource available on the Museums Archives and Libraries Yorkshire 'My Learning' web site.
There are copies of documents and photographs with notes on various aspects of life in Beverley with a focus on the nineteenth century.
The themes covered by the resource are: trade and commerce, education, law and order, religion, social life and self improvement and transport and communications
The materials will help you for teaching Key Stage 2 History, especially Unit 12 – How did life change in our locality in Victorian Times and Unit 18 – What was it like to live in the past.
The materials also support the themes of Citizenship, Social Justice and Diversity.
The Archives of the Landed Gentry: The Strickland-Constables of Wassand Hall Case Study
This teaching resource pack focuses on the Strickland-Constables and their family archives, which are kept at the Treasure House.
The creation of this resource was made possible by a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund for a project called Blood, Thunder and High Society: the Strickland-Constables of East Yorkshire, which ran during 2007.
The archival documents and notes in this resource can be used as a focus for a local study or as part of a larger study focusing, for example, on Victorian Britain.
World War II Documents
The eriding site is an East Riding of Yorkshire Council web site that provides e-learning resources for East Riding of Yorkshire schools.
The eriding site contains a gallery of documents about World War II.
Many of the documents here are from collections held by the Archives and Local Studies Service.
