Festival for Schools 2022
Help your students catch up at the Chalke Valley History Schools Festival where the future meets the past.
After the hiatus caused by the Covid pandemic, we are delighted to announce that the festival is back for 2022.
Two days of history near Salisbury featuring a wide range of curriculum-based subjects delivered by leading historians. From the Iron Age, through 1066, the Tudors, the First World War, and the Cold War, the programme offers a series of lectures, living history displays and interactive demonstrations to bring history alive and inspire both students and teachers.
Costs
Monday 20th June 2022 – Years 6,7,8 & 9
£26.50 per independent school pupil for the day
£16.50 per state school pupil for the day
£6 per pupil on Pupil Premium for the day
Tuesday 21st June 2022 – Years 10 & 12
£27 per independent school pupil for the day
£17 per state school pupil for the day
£6 per pupil on Pupil Premium for the day
Funding your trip
We are conscious that for some schools, budgets for school trips are very tight. The Chalke Valley History Trust has a limited amount of funding available to help as many schools as possible to experience the Festival. For further information please contact us on 01722 780793 or [email protected]
The Schools’ Festival Days start at 10.00am/10.15am and finish at 3.15pm.
There is plenty of parking for both coaches and minibuses and access to the site in Broad Chalke village, 25 minutes from Salisbury, is easy. Pupils can either bring a packed lunch or take advantage of the food stalls that are based at the Festival throughout the week.
For further information and booking queries please email [email protected] or call 01722 780793.
2022 TALKS & ACTIVITIES
MONDAY 20th JUNE 2022
Years 6, 7, 8, & 9
The History Tellers
FRIGHTFUL FLIGHTS IN HISTORY SHOW
Frances Durkin
THE HISTRONAUTS: A GREEK ADVENTURE
Chris Culpin
THE MIDDLE AGES: A HORRIBLE TIME TO LIVE IN?
Sufiya Ahmed
PRINCESS SOPHIA AND THE SUFFRAGETTES
Annelise Gray
ANCIENT ROMAN CHARIOTEERING IN THE AGE OF CALIGULA
James Holland
THE SECOND WORLD WAR: WEAPONS & UNIFORMS
Michelle Paver
WOLFBANE
Steve Etches
MARY ANNING, ALFRED LEEDS AND STEVE ETCHES: THE UK’S THREE MOST IMPORTANT ‘AMATEUR’ FOSSIL COLLECTORS
Toby Wilkinson
TUTANKHAMUN’S TRUMPET: THE STORY OF ANCIENT EGYPT IN 100 OBJECTS
Louise Jordan
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
Christian Howgill
HOW TENNIS INVENTED EVERYTHING
The Nick in Time Team
A RIOTOUS ROMP THROUGH HISTORY
DISPLAYS & ACTIVITIES FOR SCHOOLS BOTH DAYS:
ANCIENT EGYPT & THE FIRST METALLURGISTS
Will Sherman & Ian Thackray
LIFE IN AN IRON AGE ROUND HOUSE
Caroline Nicolay
TIME TRAVELLER’S KITCHEN: POMPEII TO THE 18th CENTURY
Alex Compiani
THE SKILLS OF THE SAMURAI
Bill Parr
VAINEN SCHUCH-DES-FORGES – TRAVELLING CURE-ALL VENDOR
Adam Schuches-des-Forges
DUNKIRK 25-POUNDER FIELD ARTILLERY
The Garrison Artillery Volunteers
WOMEN AT WAR: LAND GIRLS
Georgina Ratcliffe
UNSUNG HEROES OF D-DAY
Foreign Field
SOLDIER SCHOOL
Gary Wise and Fiona Francis
SMUGGLING
Dave Allan & John Winder
THE LETTER OF THE LAW: THE A-Z OF SURPRISING HISTORIC CRIME
Foreign Field
TUESDAY 21st JUNE 2022
Years 10 & 12
Lipika Pelham
PASSING: AN ALTERNATIVE HISTORY OF IDENTITY
Tracy Borman
CROWN AND SCEPTRE: THE BRITISH MONARCHY FROM WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR TO ELIZABETH II
Dan Jones
THE CRUSADES
Sarah Gristwood
THE TUDORS IN LOVE: THE COURTLY CODE OF THE LAST MEDIEVAL DYNASTY
Clare Jackson
DEVIL-LAND: ENGLAND UNDER SIEGE, 1588-1688
Patricia Fara
THE AGE OF SCIENCE AND THE ARTS
Shalina Patel
WHAT’S THE CONNECTION BETWEEN THE BRITISH EMPIRE AND THE TRANSATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE?
Iain McGregor
THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR
Joanna Grochowicz
SHACKLETON’S ENDURANCE: AN ANTARCTIC SURVIVAL STORY
Peter Caddick-Adams
THE FIRST WORLD WAR AND THE PEACE SETTLEMENT
James Holland
THE SECOND WORLD WAR
Guy Walters
THE GREAT ESCAPE
Chris Fuller
THE COLD WAR ARMS RACE & THE EVOLUTION OF U.S. COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
DISPLAYS & ACTIVITIES FOR SCHOOLS BOTH DAYS:
THE IRON AGE PIT FORGE
Tom Timbrell
ANGLO-ROMANO DISPLAY
Cranborne Chase AONB
SIEGE WARFARE: ANCIENT TIMES TO THE MIDDLE AGES
Wimborne Militia
A POLITE EXCHANGE OF BULLETS
Foreign Field
WOMEN AT WAR: WVS
Lindsey Ratcliffe
THE TRENCH: CASSEL 1940
The Trench Boys
SOE WOMEN AT WAR
Kate Vigurs
HOW TO RESEARCH…ARMY
Commonwealth War Graves Commission