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Your Timeline walk and visit includes: • a guided walk of the local area • a self-directed museum visit (to explore related displays and artefacts). The attached gallery trails have been designed to help teachers and supporting adults to lead small groups of pupils around the museum. They will help your pupils to: • find key artefacts • generate discussion and develop enquiry skills • deepen chronological understanding of the • link the museum displays to topics covered during the guided walk.

KS2 Timeline London Walk Gallery trail Overview of your route around the museum galleries

Your class is booked to visit the following galleries: 1. Medieval gallery 2. Expanding gallery 3. Victorian Walk 4. People’s City gallery 5. World City gallery * You may also wish to pop into other galleries, if you have time.

FOLLOW TRAIL THROUGH MUSEUM

WAR, PLAGUE & FIRE – MEDIEVAL LONDON 410 – 1558

CLORE LEARNING CENTRE TO L2 Take stairs down to the Galleries of Modern London STAIRS TO L2

ROMAN LONDON STAIRS TO U1 AD 50 – 410

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U1 LUNCH SPACE

LONDON BEFORE LONDON 450,000 BC – AD 50

MUSEUM ENTRANCE ABOVE ON HIGHWALK

EXPANDING CITY PLEASURE – 1850s GARDENS

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FAMILY SPACE LONDON 2012 CAULDRON U1 UPPER LEVEL ONE STAIRS TO E PEOPLE’S CITY E ENTRANCE LEVEL GALLERIES 1850s –

L2 LOWER LEVEL GALLERIES L2

TEMPORARY EXHIBITION SPACE WORLD CITY 1950s – TODAY

KS2 Timeline London Walk Gallery trail MEDIEVAL LONDON AD 410 – 1558 Medieval London Timeline London walk gallery trail

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Saxons LONDON GALLERY FROM ROMAN TIMELINE

Medieval London gallery 1 AD 410 – 1558

KS2 Timeline London Walk Gallery trail Roman London gallery Timeline London walk gallery trail

1 Walk past the Roman London gallery. Who first built the and what was it called? (Answer: the Romans founded the city of around AD 50, and it flourished until AD 410.) Why do you think a city was built here? (One answer: the was important for trade across the .) The Romans also built the first across the River Thames, and an impressive road system across Britain. The museum is on a street called . Can you work out why?

Medieval London gallery

2 Find the model of 4 This handwritten the original St Paul’s medieval manuscript cathedral, which was is from a book of destroyed by the religious chants written Great Fire of 1666. in on parchment, Imagine a time when made from animal . this was the largest Compare it with the and most important building in London. books printed by Look around the gallery for further William Caxton, who evidence of the power and of the set up a in London and and how it dominated published books in English, rather than everyday life. There were many religious Latin. Discuss why the invention of printing buildings in London, including churches, was so important, and why relatively and . books led to more people learning to read.

3 Find this leather 5 These melted jerkin and try remains of a on the replica stained costumes nearby. were Who might have left by the Tudor owned it? Jerkins demolition gang were fashionable who demolished for men and boys, Priory in and by the late 1538. Many Catholic 1500s were also popular with women. religious buildings Perhaps it belonged to an apprentice from were destroyed one of the guilds. The medieval guilds were during the Dissolution of the Monasteries associations of merchants and craftsmen, ordered by VIII. Discuss the with control over trade and manufacture. of this on people’s lives. What would it be like to be forced to change your religion? ExpandingEXPANDING City CITY gallery Timeline1670s-1850s London walk gallery trail

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NEW CITY Pleasure

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4 Printing Press Dolls’ Hous Dolls’ LONDON MADE

TO ENTRANCE TO VICTORIAN WALK 5 LEVEL TIMELINE GALLERIES TO LONDON 2012 CAULDRON SACKLER AND EXIT

Expanding City gallery 1670s – 1850s

KS2 Timeline London Walk Gallery trail Expanding City gallery Timeline London walk gallery trail

1 Find the silk mantua 3 Sit or lie down (gown). How do you in the Wellclose think it was made? prison cell and What sort of person imagine how do you think would prisoners felt have worn it? Many being locked in Londoners worked in this small space. the textile industry, Look at the including skilled silk carved onto the walls. workers who came to London from How many names can you find? Can you France to avoid . find clues about the prisoners? What does Cloth merchants made a lot of money it mean to be in debt? Many Londoners from international trade and in earlier ended up in prison because of their debts. times ran a yearly Cloth Fair near here.

2 The Rhinebeck 4 Sir Edward Blackett provides gave this dolls’ a birds-eye view of house to his wife London in about Anne. Wealthy 1806. It may have families often had been sketched from miniature replicas a balloon. Can you of their own house find St Paul’s made for display in the drawing room, Cathedral, a building rather than for children to with. on fire and sailors on ships? Where do Notice the fashionable Chinese wallpaper. you think the sailing ships might have Which two dolls do you think are servants? come to London from? Look around the What jobs would servants have done in gallery for traded goods from across the wealthy houses like this? .

Victorian Walk

5 Wander around the Victorian Walk. How has changed? Notice that shopkeepers served customers, whereas today supermarkets rely on self-service shelves. Richer people had clothes specially made, while poorer people bought second-hand items. Imagine gas lights and horse- drawn vehicles. There was no plastic or electricity. Find the . How many times a day was post collected? (6 times). People’sPEOPLE’S City gallery CITY Timeline1850s-1940s London walk gallery trail

5 World Wars Suffragettes BLITZ AUDIO 2 VISUAL Self ridges

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TO WORLD CITY GALLERY

People’s City gallery 1850s – 1940s

KS2 Timeline London Walk Gallery trail People’s City gallery Timeline London walk gallery trail

1 Find the first petrol- 4 Find the interactive driven London taxi display of Charles from 1903. Booth’s map of early film footage poverty. It was in the little cinema, based on research showing motorised about where rich traffic competing with and poor people horse-drawn vehicles. lived across London, Can you imagine the smells and noise? and was designed Do you think people worried about to show the need to ? How different do roads look improve things for London’s poor. What is and feel compared to today? the difference between a black, yellow or red area? What was the area around the museum like in 1889? 2 This Deco lift was installed in ’ 5 Find Alice Seeligs’s modern West End trunk. Alice escaped Nazi in in 1928. Imagine 1939. The rest of her what it was like family’s possessions to use a lift for were seized so they the first time. Can you think of other arrived in London inventions which changed people’s lives with just this trunk. in the 1900s? Electric lights replaced gas Many people were lights on the , and cinema became displaced by war, popular. Do you think it would have been including evacuees and families exciting to visit London at this time? whose homes were destroyed by . Look for incendiary bombs and photos of wartime London. 3 Find the water pump. Why did many people get sick and die after drinking water from a pump like 6 Can you find this this? Did you know that candlestick telephone? in the early 1900s many Look inside the red houses still did not have telephone box. The first running water, taps, or London telephone directory indoor toilets? Water was published in 1880. pumps in the street were Guess how many used by hundreds of pages it contained. If people. How did London you push the correct clean up its water supply? answer, a window pane will light up. Who do you think owned the first telephones? Can you imagine not having a phone or using one for the first time? World City gallery Timeline LondonWORLD walk CITY gallery trail 1950s –Today

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World City gallery 1950s – today

KS2 Timeline London Walk Gallery trail World City gallery Timeline London walk gallery trail

1 Find the 1953 dress 4 Can a badge change worn at the coronation people’s views? In the of Queen Elizabeth II. 1970s and 1980s many After the Second people wore badges World War, London when campaigning had become more on different issues. culturally diverse as The Anti-Nazi League campaigned people from the against the National Front, a political Commonwealth and group which promoted racial hatred, ex-British Empire saying immigrants should be ‘sent home’. countries were encouraged to come to The gay rights movement joined the London for work, yet they often faced movement to stage racist attitudes. How do you think people concerts at which artists, punk from London, Britain and across bands and gay musicians played together. felt about the new queen?

5 Find the ‘Cityman’ mobile phone 2 Find this 1960s dress and the Apple microcomputer. featuring the pop group The Both were luxury items in 1987. Beatles, and the punk clothes Discuss how new technology has from the 1970s. Discuss changed people’s lives. What are which styles of clothes, the biggest changes at home, toys, magazines and other school and work? Can you imagine belongings you like. Do you life before the ? Find the know music by , black and white TV nearby and or by any punk bands? Do watch some children’s TV shows you know in which decade from the 1950s. How has children’s your parents and grandparents would have changed? been the same age that you are now?

6 Find out why this toy 3 Find the Heathrow is called Mandeville. luggage trolley and In 2012 London hosted read about why Yasar the largest and most cried on his suitcase in successful Paralympics 1972. What is the ever. Do you know

difference between a anyone who watched © IPC refugee and people or helped with migrate for other games? London also reasons? By the 1970s an increasing hosted the in 1948. number of Londoners had global Look at the Timeline which highlights connections, and global travel became some important issues which have more common. What would planning always affected London such as air a trip abroad have been like before quality, , communications and passenger flights? infrastructure. Discuss how London changed in living memory. All content and images © , unless stated otherwise