Five cheap & easy ways to buff up on Britain’s fascinating history

STIMULATE your encephalon by buffing up connected our country’s affluent and fascinating history.

Heading backmost to the schoolroom tin outgo you, but determination are plentifulness of ways to larn for free.

Here are immoderate options . . . 

FREE MIND: There are 29 courses connected British past disposable astatine online learning level futurelearn.com, immoderate of which are free, including Robert Burns: Poems, Songs and Legacy.

You tin besides instrumentality your prime from a agelong database of escaped courses, including past and different subjects, astatine openculture. com/freeonlinecourses.

MAP IT OUT: Explore however your country has changed implicit the past 180 years with Ordnance Survey maps of England and Wales going backmost to the 1840s.

Work done the years to spot however communities person dispersed implicit the past mates of centuries astatine maps.nls.uk.

Across Britain, determination are thousands of remains of Iron Age hillforts.

Look up section sites astatine hillforts.arch.ox.ac.uk and find accusation connected what remains successful each area.

EXPLORE VIRTUALLY: English Heritage has worked with Google truthful you tin virtually sojourn its sites via videos and 360-degree tours astatine artsandculture. google.com/project/english-heritage.

The British Museum in London is escaped to participate and good worthy a sojourn if you’re successful the capital.

But determination is besides loads to research connected its tract astatine britishmuseum.org, including curator tours and an overview of gladiator warring successful Britain.

LISTEN UP: There are a fig of fantastic podcasts that fto you larn astir British past for free.

The National Trust and English Heritage some connection bid to assistance you uncover much of the stories down their sites.

MAKE HISTORY: Find precious photos, maps and much astir your section country contributed by the nationalist astatine sharing tract historypin.org.

Why not adhd your ain ­stories for others to spot and link with?

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