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Basildon Heritage have a library of local history and general interest short PowerPoint presentations by Norman Bambridge and Theresa Worland available for Educational and Society use.
Please get in touch via the Contact Us form for more details and access.
Pre-History:
Power point and Extract:
Iron Age Tribes in Britain. * Script & Booklet available.
Geology. * Script & Booklet available.
Battle of Benfleet (Viking - 893AD) * Script available.
Canvey Island (including Roman Salt-Pans) * Script & Booklet available.
Extract only (no Powerpoint).
Early History of Billericay.
Significant Historical Events (Stone Age to 2020)
Anglo-Saxon Essex.
The range of available presentations covering Key Stage 3 Curriculum (11-14 years) are:
1066 – 1509 (William the Conqueror to Henry II).
The Norman Conquest.
The Domesday Book.
The Magna Carta.
Anglo-Saxon Farming.
The Hundreds of Essex (and Barstable).
Monasteries in Medieval Essex.
Political and Military Alliances and Treaties (1260-Present day – Booklet).
Royal Forests.
Medieval Trade, Manufacturing and Towns.
Wat Tyler and the Peasants Revolt. *Full Booklet also available.
Extract only (no Powerpoint):
The role of the church in medieval agriculture.
Agriculture, the Anglo-Saxon economy and Manorial system.
Feudal Governance and Taxation.
Taxation:
Hide Tax (Anglo-Saxon and Norman to 1163).
Geld Tax (Anglo-Saxon and Norman).
Scutage Tax (Knights Shield Tax)
Tallage (Land Tax)
Carucage (Land Tax)
Pipe Rolls (Royal register of taxes and debts)
Poundage and Tonnage Tax (Goods and Services)
Burgage Tenure (Towns etc).
Pontage Tax (Medieval Bridges maintenance)
Murage Tax (City Walls).
Pavage (Pavements and Roads).
Wool and Woollen Taxes (1275-1863 various times)
1509-1745 Post Medieval era.
(Tudor period 1485-1602 followed by Stuart Dynasty 1603-1714 )
Power Point and Extract:
Workhouses. * Script & Booklet available
The First colonies in America.
Oliver Cromwell and the English Civil War.
George Downing (1624-1684) (No. 10 Downing Street * Full Booklet also available.
London Prisons. * Script & Booklet available.
Thames Sailing Barges. * Script & Booklet available.
Extract only (no Powerpoint):
Colchester and the English Civil War. * Full Booklet also available.
The Great Migration:
The Winthrop Fleet (1630). * Extract and Booklet.
John Gallup (1619-1675) * Booklet.
John Winthrop (1587-1649) * Booklet.
Taxation:
Coal Tax. (1667-1890)
Hearth Tax. (1662-1689)
Window Tax. (1696-1851)
1714-1901 Georgian through the Victorian era.
Powerpoint and Extract:
Chief Joseph Brant (Mohawk Nation 1743-1807) * Script, Booklet and
Extract.
Crimean War (1853-1856) * Full Booklet also available.
Brunel Family Legacy. * Script & Booklet available.
Royal Victoria Hospital Netley. * Script & Booklet available.
The Spinning Jenny (1763)
The Steam Engine.
Extract only (no powerpoint):
Courtaulds in Essex (1794-1983) * Full Booklet also available.
French Revolution (1789-1793 - Booklet).
Industrial Revolution – Key Points.
Kynochtown. (1897-1926 - Ammunition)
Taxation:
Brick Tax. (1784-1850)
Wallpaper Tax. (1712-1836)
1901-Present day.
Power Point and Extract:
Postal Service in the First World War. * Script & Booklet also available.
Dandelions. * Script & Booklet also available.
Evacuation (1939-1945) * Script & Booklet also available.
Explosives Trail. (History of Wat Tyler Country Park) * Script & Booklet also available.
Film Propaganda in the First World War. * Script & Booklet also available.
The Suffragette Movement. * Script & Booklet also
available.
Extract only (no Powerpoint):
World War One:
Conscientious Objectors. (Extract and Booklet)
Conkers for Cordite. (Extract and Booklet)
DORA (Defense of the Realm Act) 1914. (Booklet)
Elsie Lagsding – Basildon’s Suffragette. (Extract and Booklet)
Doctors from Wickford who went to war. (Booklet)
Espionage. (Booklet)
Essex Farm Cemetery. (Booklet)
Food and Rationing in the First World War. (Extract and Booklet)
Lice in the First World War. (Extract and Booklet)
Lochnagar Crater. (Booklet)
Lost to Football in the First World War. (Booklet)
Mutiny in the First World War. (Extract and Booklet)
National Registration Act 1915. (Extract)
Passchendaele (Extract and Booklet)
Talbot House (Poperinghe – Flanders) (Extract and Booklet)
The Path to Treatment in the First World War. (Booklet)
Extract only (no Powerpoint):
World War Two:
Enigma. (Booklet)
The V2 Rocket in the Basildon Area. (Booklet)
Basildon and the Burma Railway. (Booklet)
Operation Manna, Chowhound & Faust. (Extract and Booklet).
Post World War II.
Extract only (no Powerpoint):
National Register 1939.
Social History of Post War Britain (1945-1979)
Social History of Britain 1980-Present.
Basildon Heritage offer on site and at your venue educational sessions on local history and geneaology
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