Every visit includes:
We recommend our Arms and Armour session and your choice of one or two other workshops, but your programme can be tailored to your requirements.
All of our sessions are fully facilitated and inclusive.
An excellent visit, providing good educational content in a fun way.
Join the infantry in this object-based session that examines the military experience of the Civil War. Handle typical civil war armour and weapons, learn how they were used and take part in musket and pike drills. Can you fire a musket fast enough?
Re-enact the Trial and Execution of Charles I in this interactive drama-based session. Bring this dramatic moment of history to life and debate the issues surrounding the trial. Should Charles lose his head? Let your students decide.
Investigate the experiences of ordinary people and petition for money at the Quarter Sessions. Based on research from the Civil War Petitions Project, this drama-based session reveals the human cost of the British Civil Wars. Working with replica artefacts and facsimile sources, bring to life wounded soldiers, widows and orphans and decide who are the most deserving cases.
Meet John Twentyman or his wife Jane. Walk with them to find Newark’s surviving Civil-War buildings and hear the stories they help to tell. Discover why Newark was such a strategically important garrison and learn about siege warfare in this fun participatory tour.
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We have three options to choose from:
Accompanying adults are free for groups of 12 or more.
A Level students studying an exhibit
Discover Newark’s surviving Civil War buildings, including its amazing castle. Find out why Newark was strategically important and learn about the nationally significant events that took place here.
Step into one of the most controversial moments in British history. Through role play and debate, students consider competing interpretations of these dramatic events. Was the trial a genuine attempt to reach a settlement or was Charles doomed from the start? Students bring the trial to life, engage with differing historical viewpoints, and reach their own verdict.
Investigate the 17th-century belief in magic and the witch craze that reached its height during the Civil War. Find out how accusations of witchcraft were used to slander important Royalist figures and how belief in the miraculous power of the King’s Touch helped re-establish royal authority.
Set within Newark's magnificent St Mary's Church, this session explores the religious conflicts that shaped the British Civil Wars. Students learn to read the building as a historical source, investigating how competing attitudes towards ritual, imagery and church decoration fuelled division and contributed to the outbreak of war.
Our free KS3 website developed in partnership with Newcastle University, offers subject knowledge, classroom resources, revision quizzes and games.
Our Museum and Heritage Award shortlisted A level resources, developed in partnership with Academics at the University of Oxford are free to access.
Enhance your classroom teaching with replica objects and accompanying activities.
Your bus can pull into a convenient drop-off bay outside St Mary’s church, opposite the museum. Find out more about parking.
Arrival runs smoothly if students are seated in pre-arranged groups and disembark in group order. A member of the Learning Team will greet you and help lead the students safely inside the museum to leave their bags and coats in a designated lunch space.
Timetables are provided for each member of staff on the day of your visit. These are only provided in advance for bookings of more than 90 students.
