Milton Keynes since 1940

Young Heritage Hunters

Britain Since the 1940s in the Milton Keynes Area Teachers' Pack (PDF file, 15pp, 600KB)

Green Park School invited Young Heritage Hunters to lead some workshops exploring how Milton Keynes has changed since World War 2. The workshops were inspired by songs from the Living Archive Band:

Letters Home looks at the experiences of evacuees sent to the Milton Keynes area;
There's a War On explores food rationing;

Students use drama to explain the tensions between the 'natives' and 'settlers' in 1950s Bletchley

What Do They Think We Are? is about the post-war immigration from London to Bletchley in the Milton Keynes area starting in the 1950s;
The Night the Stones Rolled into Town recalls what it was like to be a teenager in the Milton Keynes area in the 1960s and 1970s.

Students learn a popular dance from 'The Hustle' from the 1970s

A Teachers' Pack has been written inspired by the project.