Treat your class to a 90 minute journey through 1000 years of London’s murky history, as our full cast of entertaining theatrical actors bring to life gripping stories of the capital’s most infamous characters and events.
Crime and Justice
Crime and Justice
‘Crime and Justice’ is not so much a school ‘subject’ as a cross-curricular topic, which can fit neatly into a variety of syllabuses at primary and secondary level – History, English, Economics and PSHE come to mind.
Visits to courts by school groups are possible, but usually by prior booking or agreement. The story of the actions taken after an accused’s appearance in court tend to be more juicy, with all the cruelty, sadness and outrage that they created.
The 12th century Clink Museum in Clink Street, London, is a prime venue as it gave its name to all prisons, then there is the Old Bailey, the UK Supreme Court and Manchester's Courts which all offer specific activities and tours for schools. There are many other available prison visits – for example, Butte, Littledean (the Alcatraz of the Forest), Dartmoor, Northampton and Ripon – while The Tower of London still stands pre-eminent as a school venue.
Main organisations:
National Centre for Citizenship and the Law
Inclusion: NASEN
Thought of visiting?
Royal Courts of Justice, the Strand
Venues for this Curriculum
Littledean Jail is not just a prison. It is by far Europe's largest true crime, politically incorrect, bizarre, diverse museum and visitor attraction.
Welcome to Littledean Jail, a former house of correction, police station and courthouse is the county’s most talked about, most unorthodox, not to be missed historical visitor attraction set in the Royal Forest of Dean.
Your Mission: infiltrate the ship and stop the terrorists from launching the missile! The mission ends with an adrenalin pumping escape, you and your friends will feel like real spies!
Your Mission: infiltrate the ship and stop the terrorists from launching the missile! The mission ends with an adrenalin pumping escape, you and your friends will feel like real spies!
Exciting spy-themed adventure centre in Northampton for anyone over 6 years.
Your Mission: infiltrate the ship and stop the terrorists from launching the missile! The mission ends with an adrenalin pumping escape, you and your friends will feel like real spies!
Norfolk’s wonderful museum of rural life and the Workhouse
This fifty-acre site with its magnificent Georgian workhouse invites you to explore two centuries of life on the land. There are recreations of shops and homes, extensive displays on farming and village life and the popular Collections Gallery - a real treasure trove.
Originally the Police Station and Courthouse, the Museum is opposite St. Mary's Church in the centre of Axminster. Visitors may discover the old police cells which have now been incorporated into the Arts Cafe adjacent to the Museum.
Dickens World - The Grand Tour is a 90 minute interactive guided tour experience that takes visitors back in time to the Victorian England that Charles Dickens knew and wrote about in his novels and short stories.
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Commissioned by retail tycoon Julius Drewe, and designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, the castle harks back to a romantic past, while its brilliant design heralds the modern era.
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The exact date of the building of Enniskillen Castle is not recorded.
Hugh 'the Hospitable' Maguire died in 1428 after returning to Ireland from pilgrimage in Spain. The Castle must have been built before then, sometime during the 1420s.
The earliest known reference to Enniskillen Castle occurs in the Annals of Ulster in 1439.
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Warwickshire’s history, Warwickshire’s memory
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