Past exhibitions
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Abecedariums!
Learn about the relatable struggles of parents and teachers over centuries to teach the basics of reading and writing to their children. 91¶¶Òù your ABCs has never been so interesting... FREE (Open during standard 91¶¶Òù opening hours)
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Heritage Open Day 2024
Join us for national Heritage Open Days for free-entry to the 91¶¶Òù this 13th / 14th / 15th September. In keeping with this year's theme of connections and networks, our WWI classroom will be host to a special exhibition on historical geography lessons and changing world views.
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Coronation Exhibition
Visit our small exhibition on the ten monarchs that the British School in Hitchin has seen take the throne since it began. FREE
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Cabinets of Objects: Natural History in Victorian Schools
A history on the use of educational object boxes and the teaching of natural history in Victorian schools Cabinets of Objects
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It's all in the sound: the radical experiments
The radical 1960s experiments to make learning to read easier It's all in the sound: the radical experiments
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Dreamers, Radicals & Satirists
Explore the secret lives of Hertfordshire writers More info...
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First Threads: preparing girls for life?
Exhibition on the topics studied by girls in Victorian Britain, featuring amazing needlework samplers More info...
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Pop-up exhibition - At Your Service
The depctions of trademen from late Victorian and Edwardian times... More info...
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Pop-up exhibition - Sunday Schools (were so much more...)
Sunday Schools were so much more than simply schooling that happended on Sundays... More info...
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Pop-up exhibition - Piering into the Distance
Post card exhibition of seaside amusements from the early 1900s More info...
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Carrot and Stick
Explore the murky side of punishment and in schools and see how pupils were awarded for achievement and behaviour. More info...
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Pop-up exhibition - The Surprising Story of ‘Mary Had a Little Lamb’
A pop-up exhibition on the rhyme’s largely unknown history and cultural legacy. More info...
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Pop-up exhibition - Victoria, the queen who shaped the world: 200th anniversary of her birth
A pop-up exhibition on Victoria's life and legacy More info...
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Lepidopterist's Lament
The butterflies have escaped! More info...
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Pop-up exhibition - I ink therefore I am
Penmanship from the early 1800s onwards is looked at in this pop-up exhibition by Molly (one of our volunteers).
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The Headmaster's House - Christmas has arrived!
Victorian Christmas has arrived at the Headmaster's House!
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Herts at War
Learn the story of Hertfordshire during WW1 Find out more
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Devotion to Duty: Frank Young, V.C.
Learn about local soldier Frank Young's acts of bravery and see his Victoria Cross on display here in his home town *EXTENDED OPENING HOURS Find out more
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Pop-up exhibition - Mr McGill's Postcards
Humour is an important ingredient in picture postcards but humour changes. Here are a few cards from the first three decades of the last century. Are they still funny?
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Pop-up exhibition - Well-loved tales from childhood
Our favourite stories Find out more
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The Headmaster's House - in Steampunk Splendour
The Headmaster’s House has gone through a strange transformation What's Mr Fitch…
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Past the Final Page
A spotlight on selected children's books that left a lasting…
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Life on Dead Street
This exhibition explored what it was like to live in…
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Life in Miniature
Step into a world of your own and be surrounded…
Exhibition books
Downloadable exhibition booklets in lo and hi-res versions:
First Threads: preparing girls for life?
Downloand Lo-res version (10MB) |
Carrot and Stick: rewards & punishment
Downloand Lo-res version (7MB) |
We offer these web versions free - please consider donating using the link below!