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eLearning Activity: Comparing and contrasting experiences of migration in the First World War
In May 2025, EuroClio and Europeana welcomed six cultural heritage educators to The Hague for a co-creation session as part of ‘Creating Lessons with Cultural Heritage’. The project seeks to dive into the untapped wealth of cultural heritage available through museums, archives and other cultural institutions to create ready-to-use materials for the classroom. During their…
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Why does Heritage Education matter?
When Dutch students think about heritage, they tend to refer to it as ‘Ouwe meuk’, or ‘Old junk’ in English. Although it is posed as a joke, it also seems to reflect the way a lot of young students think about heritage, as something that is not interesting and could easily be thrown away. It…
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Heritage, Emotions and Faith in the History Classroom
I often wonder what growing up in 2025 is like. I myself went to school during the late eighties and early nineties, when the Berlin Wall, and consequently the Soviet Union fell. Despite, or perhaps because of, a swift war in Iraq, I experienced a hope for a better future. A hope that may best…
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Teaching Gender Equality through Public Monuments: Using the Monument(al) Challenges Toolkit and Europeana’s Sources to Explore Representation and Memory in the Classroom
If you were to count the statues in your local town, village, or city, how many would you find that represent women? Despite women making up more than half of Europe’s population, most of the statues you’ll come across commemorate the lives and achievements of men. Even when women do appear in public art, they…
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Using Photographs in the History Classroom
Photographs are a valuable way to bring history to life for students. Seeing exact reproductions of faces and places from the past can deepen students’ sense of what life may have been like in times past. This supports what Michael Hill refers to as ‘world building’: students’ ability to develop sufficient contextual knowledge and understanding…