Past exhibitions
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Heritage Open Day 2024
Join us for national Heritage Open Days for free-entry to the British Schools Museum 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) | Download Hi-res version (73MB)
Carrot and Stick: rewards & punishment
Downloand Lo-res version (7MB) | Download Hi-res version (38MB)
We offer these web versions free - please consider donating using the link below!