Online resources

Kingston Museum is developing online resources and fact sheets for schools that will also be of general interest to anyone interested in Kingston's long and distinguished history.

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Resource	Online Pages
NEW Kingston at Leisure: All Fun and Games? These packs offer a wide range of discussion points and activities relating to History and Citizenship and can be used as a supplement to the Kingston at Leisure exhibition or independently as part of your school syllabus. Our key stage one and two resource explores community and sport over time, whereas the teacher’s pack for key stages three and four investigates leisure over time and women’s liberation groups. Please click on the links to access materials.	Kingston at Leisure Key Stage One and Two Kingston at Leisure Key Stage Three and Four
Muybridge in Kingston Teachers Pack To accompany the revolutionary exhibition 'Muybridge Revolutions' at Kingston Museum, this pack provides a brief introduction to the life and work of Eadweard Muybridge. The pack looks at a selection of works in detail, providing background information, discussion ideas and suggested activities. For use at Kingston Museum or in the classroom. Suitable for teachers and students of Key Stage 2-5	Muybridge in Kingston
Silk, Squalor and Scandal, Hogarth's London A Teachers pack to support the temporary exhibition at Kingston Museum (created by Southwark Council). Supports KS2 Art and Design.	Silk, Squalor and Scandal, Hogarth's London
Magic in the Nursery A Teacher's guide for the Key Stage 2 History Curriculum	Magic in the Nursery
Citizenship: stories from the archives Kingston's archives provide enormous potential for examining local issues in the past such as local government, crime and punishment, learning, poverty, health, the environment and beliefs. The documents we have digitised are a small sample of the kinds of records we hold. We also provide background notes and, where needed, transcripts of the more hard-to-read documents.	Citizenship in Kingston: stories from the archives
Kingston at War: World War 2 Resources Kingston at War is a web site of resources from Kingston's archives to support KS2 History with links to Literacy and ICT. The site will also be of interest to the general reader. Photographs, newspaper cuttings, bomb maps and oral histories have been digitised for classroom and/or project use. These web pages are part of the 'Their Past Your Future' project, 2005, funded by the Big Lottery Fund.	Kingston at War
Fever, Filth and Fear A Key Stage 3 education pack on the history of public health in Kingston upon Thames. The pack includes teachers' notes, copies of original documents and activity sheets. The project has been grant-aided by MLA London.	Fever, Filth & Fear
Kingston's Royal Connections As one of only four Royal Borough's in England and Wales Kingston's royal connections are numerous. The Friends of Kingston Museum and Heritage Service have published a handy walking guide to Kingston Town Centre entitled 'Kingston Royal Walkabout'. The leaflet is available to pick up free at the Museum and Local History Room. Alternatively this is available online. You can also view objects in Kingston Museum with royal connections.	Kingston Royal Walkabout Kingston's Royal Connections
Fact Sheets We publish a series of themed leaflets on local history topics. These leaflets are available to purchase through the museum shop and local history room. The following are available online:	John Galsworthy in Coombe The Stained Glass Windows in Kingston Museum Richard Jefferies in Surbiton The Old Kingston Bridge and Undercroft 'Picton's Progress', the story of Cesar Picton from Senegal The Coronation Stone

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Online Pages

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Kingston at Leisure: All Fun and Games?

These packs offer a wide range of discussion points and activities relating to History and Citizenship and can be used as a supplement to the Kingston at Leisure exhibition or independently as part of your school syllabus.

Our key stage one and two resource explores community and sport over time, whereas the teacher’s pack for key stages three and four investigates leisure over time and women’s liberation groups. Please click on the links to access materials.

Kingston at Leisure Key Stage One and Two

Kingston at Leisure Key Stage Three and Four

Muybridge in Kingston Teachers Pack

To accompany the revolutionary exhibition 'Muybridge Revolutions' at Kingston Museum, this pack provides a brief introduction to the life and work of Eadweard Muybridge.

The pack looks at a selection of works in detail, providing background information, discussion ideas and suggested activities.

For use at Kingston Museum or in the classroom. Suitable for teachers and students of Key Stage 2-5

Muybridge in Kingston

Silk, Squalor and Scandal, Hogarth's London

A Teachers pack to support the temporary exhibition at Kingston Museum (created by Southwark Council).

Supports KS2 Art and Design.

Silk, Squalor and Scandal, Hogarth's London

Magic in the Nursery

A Teacher's guide for the Key Stage 2 History Curriculum

Magic in the Nursery

Citizenship: stories from the archives

Kingston's archives provide enormous potential for examining local issues in the past such as local government, crime and punishment, learning, poverty, health, the environment and beliefs. The documents we have digitised are a small sample of the kinds of records we hold. We also provide background notes and, where needed, transcripts of the more hard-to-read documents.

Citizenship in Kingston: stories from the archives

Kingston at War: World War 2 Resources

Kingston at War is a web site of resources from Kingston's archives to support KS2 History with links to Literacy and ICT. The site will also be of interest to the general reader. Photographs, newspaper cuttings, bomb maps and oral histories have been digitised for classroom and/or project use.
These web pages are part of the 'Their Past Your Future' project, 2005, funded by the Big Lottery Fund.

Kingston at War

Fever, Filth and Fear

A Key Stage 3 education pack on the history of public health in Kingston upon Thames. The pack includes teachers' notes, copies of original documents and activity sheets.

The project has been grant-aided by MLA London.

Fever, Filth & Fear

Kingston's Royal Connections

As one of only four Royal Borough's in England and Wales Kingston's royal connections are numerous. The Friends of Kingston Museum and Heritage Service have published a handy walking guide to Kingston Town Centre entitled 'Kingston Royal Walkabout'. The leaflet is available to pick up free at the Museum and Local History Room. Alternatively this is available online. You can also view objects in Kingston Museum with royal connections.

Kingston Royal Walkabout

Kingston's Royal Connections

Fact Sheets

We publish a series of themed leaflets on local history topics. These leaflets are available to purchase through the museum shop and local history room. The following are available online:

John Galsworthy in Coombe

The Stained Glass Windows in Kingston Museum

Richard Jefferies in Surbiton

The Old Kingston Bridge and Undercroft

'Picton's Progress', the story of Cesar Picton from Senegal

The Coronation Stone