Hi, I'm Michael Marshman, the County Local Studies Librarian. Claire Skinner (Principal Archivist) and I have been working with local school children recently. At King's Lodge School in Chippenham we helped two Year 5 classes prepare for their individual local history project by working with a 2 thousand year time line, maps, newspapers and old photographs. At Pinehurst in Swindon we worked with 60 Year 3 children on old maps and photographs, while children from Gorse Hill School came to the History Centre to learn about life at home during the Second World War. I've also visited North Bradley School to talk about Roman life in Britain and the villa at Bradford on Avon using models made by pupils from St. Laurence's School, Bradford.

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