History Workshops
Including larger than life, interactive performances, open-ended drama workshops and more intimate classroom-based sessions, our unique range of History Workshops and Shows for Primary Schools offers pupils privileged perspectives on the lives of people in the past.
One of the UK’s leading providers of History workshops to primary and secondary schools, our programmes are enjoyed by thousands of pupils each year.
We cover a wide range of history topics and most of our workshops can be enjoyed by the whole-school in just one day!
HISTORY Workshops for primary schools
New! History Through Drama – Titanic Tales: a Ship and its People
A themed Big History Day provides you with the perfect platform to generate a real “history buzz” across the whole school.
New! History Through Drama – Nine Days of Turmoil: 100 Years Since the General Strike
A themed Big History Day provides you with the perfect platform to generate a real “history buzz” across the whole school.
History Through Drama
A History Through Drama day can accommodate the whole of up to a two-form entry school in a single day!
The Best of British Women in STEM
A drama-based workshop bringing to life the achievements of British women who have pushed the boundaries of science.
London History Day – History School Workshops
Specially developed to support children’s understanding of the important part London plays in history.
Themed Big History Workshops
A themed Big History Day provides you with the perfect platform to generate a real “history buzz” across the whole school.
World War One Schools Play and Workshops – Living with the War
A schools’ play specifically designed to support the exploration of World War One at Key Stages 1-4.
The Brilliant Britons
Take in over ten thousand years of British history in a fast-paced and action-packed hour and a half!
Historical Maths
School Workshop Historical Maths These uniquely cross-curricular programmes see children using a range of age-differentiated mathematical skills to…
Journeys into Space – Secondary
Students will explore the unique and fragile nature of Planet Earth and the story of human exploration of…
Ruby Slippers’ Tour of British History!
School Workshops A unique way to explore both history and British Values – in just one day! There…
VE Day – Family Friendly Workshops
Family Workshops May 2025 will mark eighty years since VE Day – when the nation united in rejoicing at the…
A World of World Views
Teaching children that “world views” are not always tied to religion or spirituality and to explore some wider world views
VE Day School Workshops – 80 Years Since VE Day
Our VE Day School Workshops open with a whole-school, interactive assembly exploring VE Day and why it was important.
Exploring the World of Explorers
School Workshops From Leif Erikson to Neil Armstrong, this workshop introduces KS1 /P1 – P3 pupils to some…
The Women of Space
This workshop brings to life the women who have played such an important role in humanity’s journey to the stars:
History: A Victorian Christmas
School Workshops The roots of Christmas as we know it today stretch less than 200 years into the…
Homing in on the Home Front – WWI
Exploring ways that war touched on every aspect of life – including food, clothes, and precautions against invasion.
Time Travel Tourist – the Apollo Adventurers
School Workshops It was in July 1969 that Neil Armstrong stepped onto the lunar landscape and uttered the…
Florence Nightingale – Legacies of the Lady with the Lamp
Using a range of age appropriate, drama-based techniques, Florence will help pupils learn about her life, times and achievements.
1066 and all that: A History of Britain
School Workshops Extending children’s learning beyond the national curriculum, while also exploring British values, this KS2 / P4…
The Story of Flight
School Workshops Looking at ways that Science Investigators have helped humankind fulfill its dream of taking to the…
Journeys into Space
School Workshops It’s more than fifty years since the first humans walked on the moon – and Journeys…
London History Day
Developed specially to mark London History Day, London Stories can accommodate the whole of up to a two-form entry school in a single day of age-differentiated workshops exploring the story of the city from the Iron Age to the advent of World War II. And the day has been enjoyed by schools including Ibstock Place, Holy Trinity, Gospel Oak, Holmleigh, Oaklands and West Ham primaries!.
Time Travel Theatre
We regularly take our History workshops into schools across the region. Recent workshops include; Black History Month workshops at Our Lady & St Philomena’s Primary School, a Big History Day at Longmoor Primary School and a Cultures and Civilisations day at St Austin’s Primary. Holy Spirit Catholic Primary School in St Helens have our history workshops each half-term, allowing children lots of opportunities to explore a whole host of history topics!
Local History
We are able to develop bespoke History programmes for schools, specially designed to tie in with whole-school aims and objectives. Marking an important birthday for Smithdown Primary School on Merseyside, for example, 150 Years of Smithdown saw every year group participating in workshops exploring different, age-appropriate aspects of local history!
Landmark Occasions
Our whole-school programmes supporting moments of national significance (Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee, Charles III’s coronation and the 80th anniversary of VE Day) always prove particularly popular. In 2026 we will be marking the centenary of the General Strike with a new workshop History Through Drama: Nine Days of Turmoil: 100 Years Since the General Strike? – when workers across the country walked out of their jobs to protest against poverty-level wages and terrible working conditions in the coal mining industry.
“Year 2 had the most incredible History Day with As Creatives! We spent the whole day being historians and learning so much about significant individuals such as Mary Seacole, Martin Luther King, Queen Elizabeth 2, Rosa Parks & Helen Sharman.”
“Please can you pass on a big thank you to Joe for the 80th Anniversary of VE day assembly and workshops that he delivered on Friday. I didn’t get to see him before he left however I have received lots of positive feedbackfrom both students and staff. The assembly was very successful and the children were thoroughly engaged. “
“I wanted to thank you and Chris for our VE Day workshop. The children and staff all had a wonderful time and were full of praise for the content covered. Chris was engaging and knew exactly how to pitch the workshop to capture the children’s interest. We had a great day.“
History Events & Key Dates
Holocaust Memorial Day
