The Blitz: Ken’s World War Two story
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Learn about the Blitz through Ken’s personal story of living in London’s Docklands as a child during World War Two.
What can eyewitness accounts and other primary sources tell us about life during the Blitz? Find out in this interactive and exploratory workshop.
Discover Ken’s personal story of living in London’s Docklands as a child during World War Two, captured on film by the museum in 2020. Develop enquiry and evidence-based skills, while engaging with authentic lived experience. Empathise with personal experiences of evacuation, rationing and bombing, using objects and testimony that are relevant and poignant today.
Important information
This session shares the lived experience of children during the Blitz and includes discussions of loss, death and trauma. As such, we recommend this session for year 5 and 6 groups. Please email the Learning team if you have any questions about the content, or to discuss any particular sensitivities within your class.
Session availability
| Date | Time |
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| Tue 26 Nov 2024 | 10am – 1.15pm |
| Date | Time |
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| Tue 18 Mar 2025 | 10am – 1.15pm |
| Wed 19 Mar 2025 | 10am – 1.15pm |
| Date | Time |
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| Tue 13 May 2025 | 10am – 1.15pm |
| Tue 13 May 2025 | 10.15am – 1pm |
| Tue 13 May 2025 | 11.30am – 2.15pm |
| Wed 14 May 2025 | 10am – 1.15pm |
| Wed 14 May 2025 | 10.15am – 1pm |
| Wed 14 May 2025 | 11.30am – 2.15pm |
| Thu 15 May 2025 | 10am – 1.15pm |
| Thu 15 May 2025 | 10.15am – 1pm |
| Thu 15 May 2025 | 11.30am – 2.15pm |
Need to know
Our address is London Museum Docklands, No.1 Warehouse, West India Quay, London E14 4AL. We're just a few minutes away from Canary Wharf and West India Quay.
Check our need to know page to get the answers to all the frequently asked questions about visiting, facilities and accessibility.
To book, please call the Box Office on 020 7001 9844. If you have difficulty using the telephone, please visit our Access page for assistance.
60 minute classroom session plus 20 minute gallery introduction from a museum learning facilitator and further self-directed gallery time.
KS2 History: A significant turning point in British history; a study of an aspect of history or a site dating from a period beyond 1066 that is significant in the locality
KS2 Citizenship: To think about the lives of people living in other places and times
Tags
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London Museum Docklands
Docklands at War: 1939–1945
How London survived and helped the war effort, from Dunkirk to D-Day
London Museum Docklands
New Port, New City: 1945 – present
How Docklands was reinvented for a new century – from rebuilding, dereliction and back to rebuilding
