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Take One is expanding rapidly at the Tower, and the past three years have seen the number of children taking part in the project rise from 50 in 2010 to a massive 1500 in 2012. But, have you ever wondered what Take One is all about? Now is your chance to find out more, as [...]
Did you miss the chance to see our recent Take One exhibition at Banqueting House? Well, fear not – you now have the chance to view selected images of work from our Take One Armour project online, by visiting our Flickr site. Click on the link to be redirected automatically. Please feel free to add [...]
Last week, we were delighted to host our celebration for this year’s Take One project at Banqueting House, Whitehall. Over 100 teachers, school governors and parents attended our evening event, and 400 children came along to see their work on display at a special schools’ event. As one KS2 pupil said, “this is a once [...]
We are delighted to announce that we have just finished recording a brand new podcast series, based on the stories of the ten people who are commemorated on the Tower of London’s execution site memorial. The stories were researched by members of the Tower Education Service, and written and performed by actress and storyteller Claire [...]
Since 2006, the Tower Education Service has been working in partnership with Birkbeck College to deliver an annual course, ‘Interpreting the Tower’. Now in its 7th year, the course aims to encourage students to explore the diverse ways in which the Tower of London’s stories have been interpreted over the course of its 1000 year [...]
Following the success of Take One Building in 2010-11, we are delighted to announce that we have now launched our 2011-12 project. In October last year, over 60 primary school teachers came to the Tower to find out more about this very exciting learning opportunity, and we are now working with 20 schools from across [...]
Tune into BBC Radio 3 at 8.10pm tomorrow night (Wednesday 26th October) to hear the poignant story of Fernando Buschman, one of the eleven men to have been executed at the Tower of London during World War One. In this twenty minute programme entitled ‘Fiddler in the Tower’, award-winning British violinist Daniel Hope visits the [...]
We are delighted to announce that HRP’s very first podcast series is now available to download free of charge via iTunes U. The stories of many of the Tower’s prisoners are well known to us all, but through this podcast series we have explored a selection of the Tower of London’s ‘other’ prisoner histories. From [...]
For the past two years, teachers from a school in Cheshire have been working alongside the Tower Education Team to deliver their GCSE coursework project based on the Tower of London. Last year’s Year 10 students spent two days at the Tower in July 2010, following a bespoke programme to explore the many different functions of the site – from Norman [...]
We are delighted to announce that a selection of work from our 2010-11 Take One project is now on display at Peckham Library for the duration of the summer holidays. Featuring work submitted by 9 of our participating primary schools, the exhibition showcases primary schools’ creative responses to the Beauchamp Tower, one of the Tower of [...]