News and Media: Living History - Themed Tours for KS2

18 April 2007


Are you studying the Victorians, the Tudors, the Romans or Britain since 1930 with your Key Stage 2 pupils?

Take a themed tour and bring the history to life! PGL can offer educational visits, centred around a historical period and combined with a programme of adventure activities and supervised evening entertainment.

Call us for details on 08703 800 245 or have a look at some of the tour examples below:

Victorian Tours


Visit a Victorian town with chemist, sweetshop, printer, candle maker, squatters cottage, schoolhouse and bank - where you can obtain Victorian money to spend in the town shops.

Take part in a half day workshop in the Victorian schoolroom, kitchen or laundry.

Have a go at Victorian crafts - candle dipping, brick making and Victorian toys.

Experience a Victorian tea party.

Roman Tours


Experience the King Arthur trail following the life of the King who was born, lived and died in Shropshire.

Explore Viroconium at Wroxeter the fourth largest city in Roman Britain

Have a go at Roman crafts - mosaic making.

Visit Mitchell's Ford Stone Circle or Old Oswestry Hill Fort.

Tudor Tours


Visit Shrewsbury Abbey, one of the great monasteries founded in 1083, chronicles of Brother Cadfael give a wealth of examples of the impact this period had on British life.

Enjoy a tudor banquet or experience tudor pastimes.

Visit the medieval town of Shrewsbury.

Wartime Evacuees (Children of World War II)


Experience Britain in the Blitz - a workshop day at Shugborough Estate.

Explore the personal property of family members during the war.

Hands on learning for evacuation, rationing, make-do and mend.

Experience 1940s music, hair-dos and recycling.


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