Cumbria Archives
Preserving and providing the written heritage of Cumbria

Alfred Wainwright - resources for schools - workshops

Free interactive workshops at your local archive centre (Kendal, Carlisle, Whitehaven, Barrow)

Investigate a range of primary sources from Wainwright's archive: 

  • photographs
  • school report cards
  • letters
  • note books
  • sketches. 

Bring his work to life with drama, storytelling and drawing. These fabulous cross curricular workshops support literacy, history, geography and art for KS2.

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Booking your Wainwright Workshop

The workshops are available at all our archive centres in Kendal, Carlisle, Whitehaven and Barrow.

To book or for more information please contact your local office.

Workshop 1

Discover the life story of Alfred Wainwright (PDF 337 KB)

Workshop 2

Discover how Wainwright wrote his guide books (PDF 682 KB)

Workshop 3

We can combine the above 2 workshops into one if you have limited time (PDF 604 KB)