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America?
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Starting at 1857 gets you the Second Opium War. Go to China town, tell them about immigration to the UK from other parts of the empire, Singapore, Malaysia etc.
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Thomas Paine was educated at Thetford Grammar School: I'm not sure there is much to see there, but it might be worth dropping them a line.
Or blow the budget and book into the White Hart in Lewes and recreate meetings of the Headstrong Club!
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Apparently the Washington statue at Trafalgar Square is placed on dirt shipped from his home in Virginia because he had sworn never to stand on British soil again. So that's a bit like taking them to America.
Richard Price (who's at Bunhill cemetery, and whose home is a museum now, I believe) is a lesser know figure well connected to the American revolution, as well as an important figure in regard to the British empire.
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might be interesting to look at the influence of the european enlightenment on the thinking of the american civil war, and in particular british and scottish enlightnment, jefferson, locke etc. see http://www.articlemyriad.com/influence-enlightenment-formation-united-states/
then via that, there's http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/galleries/themes/room_1_enlightenment.aspx
the mark steel lecture on thomas paine is also pretty good/funny, not that I think 16 year old kids like left wing comedy lectures http://www.marksteelinfo.com/audio/ThomasPaine.mp3
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I'm teaching AS-level students (age 16 and 17) the American Revolution and the British Empire 1857-1914 this year.
Any ideas of places to go for subject specific trips?
There's Benjamin Franklin's old house, and there's an American Museum near bath (though that seems to be mainly textiles and chairs and things), where else might be good?
Somewhere within a couple of hours of London preferably.