Festival for Schools
The Chalke Valley History Festival for Schools is a very important part of our festival week. We are proud that a large cross-section of schools attend, and a number travel a good distance to do so.
Our aim is to inspire, excite and inform pupils about our past.
For further information and booking please email rachelholland@cvhf.org.uk or call 01722 780793.
Please note – no children will be allowed into the event site unless accompanied by an adult or within a school or college group; this means anyone under 16 years of age. There will be a clearly demarcated Lost Child Point in the Ticket & Information Tent.
Living History
LIVING HISTORY
There will be a wide range of living historians covering some two thousand years of history from Celts to Romans through to the Wars of the Roses, English Civil War, and the two World Wars.
They will be demonstrating a number of activities from skills at arms through to historic cookery. Pupils will see and feel uniforms, learn about daily life from the past, traditional crafts and have a chance to see weapons in action and hear some bangs from Civil War muskets to British Second World War artillery ring.
OUR LIVING HISTORY EXHIBITORS WILL INCLUDE:
- 600BC to 43AD Iron Age – Celtic Wheat Grinding Life of a Celtic Tribesman
- Life in the Roman Legion
- Anglo-Saxon Settlement Anglo-Saxon Bread Making
- Anglo Saxon – Traditional Crafts
- Archery Demonstrations
- Norman Siege Weapons & Siege Warfare
- Crusades – Trade Routes & Travel
- Edward III, the Great Plantagenet King: His Life & Times
- Wars of the Roses – Life & Combat
- English Civil War – Guns & Cannon Repair Shops & Use of Black Powder First World War Trench
- First World War Horse-drawn Ambulance & Vehicles
- French Army 1914-1940
- Second World War Weapons & Uniforms
As well as Living History Year 8’s will be able to enjoy the following lectures.
Tuesday 27th June
- Horrible Histories – Martin Brown
- The English Civil War – Dr John Adamson
- Was Hitler a Popular Dictator? – Chris Culpin
- Crime & Punishment in the Victorian Countryside: Sarah’s Sad Story – Jamie Byrom
- Castles & Medieval Warfare – Dr Peter Caddick-Adams
- England & India in the Reign of Elizabeth I – Dr Michael Riley
- Horrible Histories – Martin Brown
- 1016 & 1066: Why the Vikings Caused the Norman Conquest – Martyn Whittock
Thursday 29th June
- Horrible Histories – Martin Brown
- Queen Victoria – Kate Hubbard
- The Life of a Roman Legionary – Ben Kane,
- Charles Dickens – Andrew Billen
- Was Hitler a Popular Dictator? – Chris Culpin
- David Livingstone – Amanda Mitchison
- Horrible Histories – Martin Brown
- The Odyssey – Tom Holland
For further information and booking please email rachelholland@cvhf.org.uk or call 01722 780793.
Speakers
SPEAKERS
We have a number of eminent speakers attending this year, covering both core curriculum subjects and more wide-ranging periods and topics. Among these are academics such as Professor Jeremy Black on The Crusades & Medieval Warfare, Dr Peter Caddick-Adams on The League of Nations & Peace Treaties, Dr Gareth Williams on African-American Civil Rights, eminent Professor of Ancient History Paul Cartledge, Dr Suzannah Lipscomb on Witchcraft & The Witch Trials and Professor Frank McDonough on The Origins of the Second World War. We will be bringing together some of the finest historians and best communicators in the country.
