Today’s challenge was really tricky.

We are making our own timeline that covers the history of mining in Barnsley.  This means it starts before Victorian times and runs all the way to now.

Mining has really shaped and defined our local identity so we couldn’t map the history of mining without including the changes in culture too.

We had to use LOTS of different sources of information to create our timelines:

Mr Swallow had written some important events down but they were all jumbled up so we had to get them into CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER and choose which ones we wanted to use.

We had dozens of books about mining and local history to gather our own information from to add to our timeline.

We had a set of existing timelines covering everything from pop culture to politics, again we could choose the information we wanted to use and add it to our own timeline in the correct place.