Have you booked your place yet on the Northern History Forum Teachers' CPD event at M&S Company Archive in Leeds on Wed 16 March? See final article below for details.
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From the My Learning Team
Featured Resource to Mark International Women's Day, 8 March
In 1968 three Hull trawlers sank within a few weeks of each other and 58 men lost their lives. People were horrified that this could have happened and a campaign for better safety at sea was launched by the wives, sisters and daughters of trawlermen - the so-called 'Headscarf Campaign'.
Led by the formidable Lillian Bilocca, known as 'Big Lil', the campaigners met with trawler owners and government ministers, and some wives picketed the dock to make sure that no ships left without a radio operator.
The campaign received huge media attention at the time and has recently been in the news again as there are plans to make a film about Big Lil's fight and the headscarf revolutionaries of Hessle Road.
Find out more about these remarkable women by viewing our unique film clips of an interview with one woman who took part in the campaign.
Recommended by Primary Teachers to mark British Science Week, 11-18 March
Rupert Brooke and Ferenc Békássy were both students at King's College, Cambridge and members of a secret debating society at the University. Before the outbreak of War in 1914, both Brooke and Békássy had poems printed in Basileon, a student magazine dating back to 1900 (pictured below).
How can we use archives in the classroom to shed light on the past?
The archive contains over 70,000 items relating to the past and present of M&S. The collection is housed at the Michael Marks Building on the University of Leeds campus, where the Marks in Time exhibition is also open to the public.
In addition to exploring this fascinating collection, the event will offer the opportunity to get to grips with using archives in the history classroom more generally and how archive materials can be used to spark an enquiry and build pupils' understanding of the nature and different types of historical evidence.
My Learning will be at this event to showcase the M&S Company Archive suite of resources - we hope to see you there!
My Learning is a website for teachers and learners inspired by the collections of arts, cultural and heritage organisations.
My Learning resources remain FREE to use and feature thousands of images and downloads for the classroom. Don't forget to use the keyword search on the website if you're looking for material on particular topics.
