Best history home education resources

Find out about real-life spies, Home Front heroes and heroines and more with Adventures in History, a series of new videos from Imperial War Museums (IWM). Presented by family favourite CBBC presenter Ben Shires, the videos will introduce a different theme inspired by the national curriculum every week, offering ingenious, surprising and moving perspectives on history that children would not normally hear in the classroom. 

You'll then need to get hands-on and put your learning to the test with Family Mission fun challenges, games and activities inspired by the IWM stories and collections.

Keep young historians exploring the past without stepping outside your front door with Historic Royal Palaces' games, videos and animations for home schooling.

They'll need to step into the shoes of a Tudor servant and plan a feast for a hungry Henry VIII (but be careful not to be unmasked as an imposter!), reorder some historical events in a Story Shufffle game, explore a millenium of history at the Tower of London in a podcast series and investigate Tudor times with a modern-day reporter... all in the name of historical accuracy!

Explore the past on the English Heritage History at Home site, with crafts and history-themed videos and ideas for things to make and do, whether it’s learning making your own Roman mosaic, finding out about medieval heraldry, sculpting a clay dragon or forging a cardboard sword and shield to defend your castle (or home) with. 

You can also catch up with English Heritage's free weekly history lesson series hosted by CBBC presenter Ben Shires. The topics covered tracked the history National Curriculum, from Prehistory to the Second World War, and share information about some of the country’s most iconic sites, including Stonehenge, Hadrian’s Wall and Dover Castle.

Stage a royal coronation at home, make up a secret sign language and learn to navigate around an ancient place of worship – just three of the new A to Z online educational activities for primary children from Westminster Abbey. Led by the Abbey’s Livingstone the Lion cartoon character, the downloadable worksheets start with A for Abbey, B for Benedictine and C for Coronations. 

You'll find activity and information PDFs, zoomable images and short films about all the KS1 and KS2 history curriculum topics on the Ashmolean Museum's Learning Resources website. Watch a film about mummification, find out more about Ancient Greek pots, read Latin inscriptions, learn to read, write and say Chinese numbers, understand Stone Age technology, listen to Old English and see Guy Fawkes' lantern – all without setting a foot outside your front door!

Test your knowledge with some online quizzes, write your name in Egyptian hieroglyphs, explore Ancient Greece and take a ride in a chariot, have a go at making a mummy and more – there are loads of historical games, aligned with the KS2 history curriculum, to try on the Children's University of Manchester History website.

A treasure trove of archaeology and social history activities to help educate and entertain, inspired by the collections across Colchester and Ipswich Museums. Museum From Home offers step-by-step instructions to help you make your own castle, construct a Roman shield, helmet or sword, recreate a work of art, explore life as an evacuee, work out the answers to some Anglo Saxon riddles and loads more!