London History Hunters

Saturday 9 October, 2010

Museum of London
London Wall
EC2Y 5HN

History Hunters is a heritage-based digital orienteering event for children and families looking at innovations in London's past seen through the city's archaeological record.

It will look at key developments in the city's past and how these were responses to challenges that still face the city, including social, economic and environmental change.

Teams of families will be briefed and given an instruction booklet with oblique photographs and cryptic clues and will be sent into the City of London to digitally capture specific objects, places, sites and people. Using their own mobile phones or digital cameras the teams will capture these objects and places and return the images to our History Hub where experts will collate their images into a digital storyboard and feed them into a constantly-updated website. At the History Hub the public will be able to handle and learn about real archaeological artefacts associated with the sites.

After the orienteering an archaeological expert will give a talk illustrating each of the sites, weaving them together into a compelling narrative using the images created by the teams during the History Hunters event. The talk will be open to everyone, not just participants in the orienteering.

For further information and to book a place please download the event details (38k).