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Dates
Permanent
Booking Information
Free*
Duration: Full day delivered jointly between Newcastle University Library and the Great North Museum: Hancock
Group Size: up to 32 per group. This can adapt to accomodate two groups per day.
Suitable for: GCSE History students who are studying the history of medicine. This might include AQA Health and the People, Edexcel Medicine in Britain, OCR The People's Health, or Eduqas Changes in Health and Medicine in Britain.
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Workshop Summary
This workshop is delivered jointly by Newcastle University Library and the Great North Museum: Hancock.
Students will have the opportunity to engage with original primary and secondary source material related to their studies at Newcastle University’s Special Collections and Archives and the Great North Museum: Hancock. Covering the four key time periods studied in the history of medicine at GCSE, from medieval and Renaissance to industrial and modern medicine, these workshops can be tailored to your chosen exam board. At the Great North Museum: Hancock this will be extended earlier to consider Roman Britain, Ancient Greece and Ancient Egypt, with a later focus on Mummification.
You could also use this website to further enhance your studies back in school.
