Classroom vs Real World Learning: Why History Trips Win
Classroom vs real world learning: discover why school history trips win.
Why Are Berlin & Kraków Essential for Teaching 20th Century History?
Explore 20th century history beyond the classroom with immersive school trips to Berlin and Krakow, where students experience the events that shaped the modern world first-hand.
Why Are School History Trips Essential for Student Learning?
In this blog, we discover why school history trips are essential for student learning and how they bring textbook learning to life.
What Skills Do Students Gain from School History Trips?
School history trips offer students a fully immersive and engaging way to bring the past to life, but they will also return home with newfound skills they can use inside and out of the classroom....
More Than Words: What the HA Great Debate Finals Taught Me About the Future
Rayburn Tour's Marketing Manager, Nicky Astle, attended the 2025 Historical Association's Great Debate, and this is what she learnt about keeping history alive beyond the classroom.
Great Debate shows why critical thinking matters more than ever
With more than 300,000 students across the UK studying history at GCSE, making it one of the most popular subjects outside the core curriculum, questions about how the past is understood remain...
School History Trips to Germany- Munich or Berlin for World War 2 Studies
School History Trips to Germany- Munich or Berlin for World War 2 Studies Planning your next school history trip to Germany? Berlin may be the obvious choice since it’s the capital city and filled...
How to Make Your WW1 Battlefields Trip More Personal and Inclusive to Your Group
A school history trip to the WW1 Battlefields with Rayburn Tours is exciting, shocking, and definitely remarkable. But to make the trip truly unforgettable, make it personal and inclusive to your...
Why Remembrance Day is so important for young people
Learn why Remembrance plays a vital role for young people in their knowledge of world history and how it can help shape their future.
School History Trips: The Key to Understanding Our Diverse World
School history trips explore countless narratives, each reflecting the diverse experiences of various cultures and communities!
Step into the American Story with Washington DC & New York
Let your students experience an immersive experience in these two iconic cities.
Why every young person should visit Auschwitz as part of their secondary school education
For me, venturing over to Poland for the first time with 40 students from Stockport Grammar School, joining them for their History School Trip, was a life-changing experience full of reflection, that...