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Creative Lockdown

During these unprecedented times, we hope that Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies can help you get creative, inspired by the stories and documents recorded in the archives.

  • Colour Our Collections

    Colour Our Collections

    Colouring is not just for children...
  • County Maps

    County Maps

    Make your own imaginary map of Hertfordshire
  • Design A Coat of Arms

    Design A Coat of Arms

    Get creative with this unusual challenge
  • Georgian Plumb Cake

    Georgian Plumb Cake

    Get your bake on
  • Lavender Bags

    Lavender Bags

    Creative fun for adults and children
  • Make your own Brent Pelham Dragon

    Make your own Brent Pelham Dragon

    Discover the legend and make your dragon
  • Walking Hitchin's Rivers: the Hiz, part 1.

    Walking Hitchin's Rivers: the Hiz, part 1.

    An afternoon's walk along the river Hiz
  • What's in the archives? giant word search

    What's in the archives? giant word search

    At a loose end? Curious about the sort of records that Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies holds? Get your pen ...
  • Word Searches for Children

    Word Searches for Children

    Looking for a brainteaser?
  • Poetry Challenge

    Poetry Challenge (8)

Life under Lockdown
  • And so the bells were silent
  • Back to School
  • Beauty in Nature
  • Cancer in a time of Covid
  • Churches closed during Lockdown
  • Coping with lockdown
  • Covid reflections
  • Ellenbrook Fields; expanding our horizons close to home during a pandemic
  • Finished in Lockdown
  • Hertford #ClapforCarers
  • Hertford and Hartham Common in Eighth Week of Lockdown
  • Hertford Woolly Bombers Celebrate Key Workers and Covid-19 Heroes
  • If only he could've gone to SpecSavers!
  • Inevitable Queuing
  • Learning to Fly
  • Life under lockdown
  • Live it still, live it well
  • Living with changes
  • Lockdown Isolation Blanket
  • Lockdown schooling
  • Love in the time of Covid
  • Market Day at Waltham Cross
  • Rush Hour at Cheshunt
  • Spoonville
  • St Albans Life under Lockdown
  • Stanstead Abbotts in Covid-19 Times
  • Strange times at the supermarket...
  • Surprisingly more active during lockdown
  • The Little Things
  • The Little Things (part 2)
  • The Little Things (part 3)
  • The Little Things (part 4)
  • The Sun Still Shines – A Song for Lockdown by WD Vocal Project
  • Trust in You
  • Walks around Bengeo in Lockdown
  • Ware Park in Covid-19 Times
  • Ware Park, a solace in Covid-19 Time
  • Welwyn Garden City during Covid 19
  • Welwyn in Lockdown - May 2020
  • Wild Water Swimming in River Lee
  • Life in Benge in Covid-19 Times
  • Creative Lockdown
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