Education Programme
Developed by a highly qualified teacher who is also an expert on sensitive and controversial heritage, these workshops and lessons can be carefully curated to the needs of your students and the curriculum they are following.
H&H have developed digital educational resources that are free for use by schools.
Using the spectacular, local mausoleum of the famous Victorian explorers, Sir Richard Francis Burton and his wife, Lady Isabel Burton, Habitats and Heritage have created free workshops and resources for Secondary and Primary school students. These were offered as part of H&H’s National Lottery Heritage Fund supported project, Burton: Exploring Without Boundaries.
This is a brilliant way to get students engaging with a stunning piece of local history on their doorstep and using it to explore a host of intriguing themes like those listed below.
Victorian Exploration
British Empire
Religions of the East
Islam and its rituals
The Hajj
Find out more about the Muslim Heritage of the borough of Richmond upon Thames and lead your own tour using our map, available for download here
Watch our three-part documentary series, The Burtons: Fascinating in Life and Death, is about the Victorian explorers and authors, Sir Richard Francis Burton and Lady Isabel Burton and their final resting place, the Burton Mausoleum.
As part of the work on the documentary series, we have created learning resources to support each episode, these can be downloaded using the link beneath each episode and offer guidance and suggestions for planning lessons for students in primary, secondary and post 16 education.
Workshops Gallery
Habitats & Heritage have carried out Burton: Exploring Without Boundaries, a project to conserve the mausoleum of Sir Richard and Lady Isabel Burton at St Mary Magdalen’s Roman Catholic Church, Mortlake – a fascinating structure designed to resemble the tent that the Burtons had made for their travels across the desert in Syria. We will be reopening the mausoleum for the first time to the public in over fifty years. This has been made possible by National Lottery players.
