We have devised some worksheets, which can be used in conjunction with Key Stage 2 or Key Stage 3 history teaching. HOLNET - the history of London website at www.holnet.org.uk - has also used material from the Charles Booth Online Archive to create resources for schools (available later in 2001).

The worksheets are available as either a PDF or a Microsoft Word 97 file for easy printing. Both versions contain the following material:

• Worksheet 1: Using maps then and now
• Worksheet 2: Using maps. Interpreting evidence
• Worksheet 3: Using the notebooks. Evaluating evidence
• Worksheet 4: Extension activity
• Guide to searching the map (courtesy of HOLNET)
• Guide to searching the notebooks (courtesy of HOLNET)

Note to Worksheet 3
Using the notebooks. Evaluating evidence.

You may wish to use this additional information to provide another perspective:

George Duckworth (1868-1934) was one of the principal social investigators working on the police notebooks, accompanying policemen on their beats around London. He was the son of a barrister, educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, and his wife was the daughter of the 4th Earl of Carnarvon. He went on to have a distinguished career in public service. Clearly a very personable man, Charles Booth described him as having "a quick eye observant of details, a cool counsel, judgement, plenty of determination and very conciliatory manners"