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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 [...]
I’m delighted to let you know that we have now received all our project work for Take One, and are currently in the process of putting together our exhibition. A total of 11 schools from the London boroughs of Tower Hamlets, Southwark, Lewisham and Hackney have taken part, with over 550 children visiting the Tower [...]
Following on from my post about The Tower of London as London ‘Take One…’ Champion, I thought I’d write a quick update about our CPD days for teachers and sector professionals. The training days were held here in our Education Centre just before Christmas and the turnout was fantastic – 26 teachers attended our teacher event and a staggering 42 representatives [...]
Ever heard of the National Gallery’s ‘Take One Picture’ project? Well, we’re really pleased that this exciting approach to learning is now being applied not only to pictures but also to buildings, objects and documents. What’s more, the MLA have named the Tower of London as London champion for ‘Take One…’. This means that over the [...]