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- Looking back at Consett Steel Works
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County Durham remembers VE Day 1945
- 'We have come through' - Remembering VE Day 1945
- 9th Battalion DLI: From D-Day to Berlin
- 9th Battalion DLI: VE Day
- 9th Battalion DLI: In Berlin, June - September 1945
- Berlin Victory Parade, 7 September 1945
- Victory Parade at Belsen, 8 May 1945
- The Northern Echo, Victory edition, 9 May 1945
- VE Day and Durham Schools
- 2nd Battalion DLI: Burma 1945
- 2nd Battalion DLI: Rangoon Victory Parade, 15 June 1945
- VE Day and the Durham Miners' Association
- County Durham celebrates VE Day
- Haswell Victory Celebrations, 1945
- Soldier: Victory Souvenir edition, 8 May 1945
- Parade: European Victory edition, 26 May 1945
- VE Day not forgotten by one Spennymoor family
- County Durham celebrates VJ Day
- Victory Day, 8 June 1946
Resource Packs
Durham County Record Office Archive Education Service has eight resource packs for use in schools. The packs are available in Durham Learning Resources boxes, which will also include related resources such as books and props, or from the Record Office directly. Contact Durham Learning Resources or get in touch with our Education Archivist to find out more.
All packs were developed in collaboration with a local teacher. Each pack includes:
- laminated copies of documents
- lesson plans
- interactive whiteboard presentations.
Ourselves (KS1)

National Curriculum links:
Identify, name, draw and label the basic parts of the human body and say which part of the body is associated with each sense.
Describe the importance for humans of exercise, eating the right amounts of different types of food, and hygiene.
Compare and sort everyday objects
Victorian Children (KS2)

National curriculum link: Extends chronological knowledge beyond 1066
Local Area (KS2)

National curriculum link: Local history study
Science (KS3)

National Curriculum links:
Ask questions and develop a line of enquiry based on observations of the real world, alongside prior knowledge and experience
The varying physical and chemical properties of different elements
Defining acids and alkalis in terms of neutralisation reactions
Science: Medicine through Time (KS3)

National Curriculum links:
Showing how scientific ideas have developed historically
Ideas, political power, industry and empire: Britain, 1745-1901
Challenges for Britain, Europe and the wider world 1901 to the present day
Local History (KS3)

National Curriculum links: Local history study
World War 2 (KS3)
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National Curriculum link: Challenges for Britain, Europe and the wider world 1901 to the present day
Poor Law (KS5)
