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Science activities on Darwin's pigeons for Key Stages 1-3.

Exploration of the themes in Victorian history that can be taught through studying the life of Charles Darwin.

An assessment of the state of knowledge of the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age of Buckinghamshire.

Guidelines for improving the quality of live interpretation at archaeological sites.

An opinion piece on the use of reenactors to bring the past to life.

Using contemporary documents, the study of history appears to get much closer to past peoples and events than is achieved through archaeology, whose 'stones and potsherds...seem mute by comparison'. Archaeology involves greater interpretation to bring these artefacts to life. Even the most basic of archaeological activities involves interpretation, such as the codifying of a soil type into sandy silt or silty sand. When it comes to assigning a meaning or use to an artefact or structure, archaeol

The Middle and Lower Thames valley and its tributaries have yielded a number of nationally important prehistoric sites. These include discoveries such as the Neolithic house and Late Bronze Age revetment at Runnymede Bridge; Early and Middle Bronze Age trackways in east London; an Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic site in Uxbridge and, just outside Greater London, the discovery of Early Man at Swanscombe. All these discoveries save the last have been made relatively recently, suggesting that mode