One of the ambitions for the project is to generate some materials for use at various Keystage levels (starting with Year 12s) in connection with national curricula and exam board offerings. These are likely to involve working up materials for teaching packs to allow local sites and people to play a more prominent role.

In particular, we are hoping to use the researchers, the public, and their interests and knowledge to pull together one or more proposals for “History Around Us” historic environment studies that address sites for which there is enough richness to explain:

1. The reasons for the location of the site within its surroundings
2. When and why people first created the site
3. The ways in which the site has changed over time
4. How the site has been used throughout its history
5. The diversity of activities and people associated with the site
6. The reasons for changes to the site and to the way it was used
7. Significant times in the site’s past: peak activity, major developments, turning points
8. The significance of specific features in the physical remains at the site
9. The importance of the whole site either locally or nationally, as appropriate
10. The typicality of the site based on a comparison with other similar sites
11. What the site reveals about everyday life, attitudes and values in particular periods of history
12. How the physical remains may prompt questions about the past and how historians frame these as valid historical enquiries
13. How the physical remains can inform artistic reconstructions and other interpretations of the site
14. The challenges and benefits of studying the historic environment