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This history trail audio is narrated by the poet Michael Rosen, with script researched by Helen Weinstein and the team at Historyworks. This recording is part of a series of Cambridge history trails which have lyrics inspired by 'history beneath our feat' performed by local schoolchildren, with poems by the top poet Michael Rosen and songs by the funny team at CBBC's songwriters commissioned by Hi...

This history trail audio is narrated by the poet Michael Rosen, with script researched by Helen Weinstein and the team at Historyworks. This recording is part of a series of Cambridge history trails which have lyrics inspired by 'history beneath our feat' performed by local schoolchildren, with poems by the top poet Michael Rosen and songs by the funny team at CBBC's songwriters commissioned by Hi...

This history trail audio is narrated by the poet Michael Rosen, with script researched by Helen Weinstein and the team at Historyworks. This recording is part of a series of Cambridge history trails which have lyrics inspired by 'history beneath our feat' performed by local schoolchildren, with poems by the top poet Michael Rosen and songs by the funny team at CBBC's songwriters commissioned by Hi...

This history trail audio is narrated by the poet Michael Rosen, with script researched by Helen Weinstein and the team at Historyworks. This recording is part of a series of Cambridge history trails which have lyrics inspired by 'history beneath our feat' performed by local schoolchildren, with poems by the top poet Michael Rosen and songs by the funny team at CBBC's songwriters commissioned by Hi...

This history trail audio is narrated by the poet Michael Rosen, with script researched by Helen Weinstein and the team at Historyworks. This recording is part of a series of Cambridge history trails which have lyrics inspired by 'history beneath our feat' performed by local schoolchildren, with poems by the top poet Michael Rosen and songs by the funny team at CBBC's songwriters commissioned by Hi...

This history trail audio is narrated by the poet Michael Rosen, with script researched by Helen Weinstein and the team at Historyworks. This recording is part of a series of Cambridge history trails which have lyrics inspired by 'history beneath our feat' performed by local schoolchildren, with poems by the top poet Michael Rosen and songs by the funny team at CBBC's songwriters commissioned by Hi...

This history trail audio is narrated by the poet Michael Rosen, with script researched by Helen Weinstein and the team at Historyworks. This recording is part of a series of Cambridge history trails which have lyrics inspired by 'history beneath our feat' performed by local schoolchildren, with poems by the top poet Michael Rosen and songs by the funny team at CBBC's songwriters commissioned by Hi...

This history trail audio is narrated by the poet Michael Rosen, with script researched by Helen Weinstein and the team at Historyworks. This recording is part of a series of Cambridge history trails which have lyrics inspired by 'history beneath our feat' performed by local schoolchildren, with poems by the top poet Michael Rosen and songs by the funny team at CBBC's songwriters commissioned by Hi...

This history trail audio is narrated by the poet Michael Rosen, with script researched by Helen Weinstein and the team at Historyworks. This recording is part of a series of Cambridge history trails which have lyrics inspired by 'history beneath our feat' performed by local school children, with poems by the top poet Michael Rosen and songs by the funny team at CBBC's songwriters commissioned by H...

This history trail audio is narrated by the poet Michael Rosen, with script researched by Helen Weinstein and the team at Historyworks. This recording is part of a series of Cambridge history trails which have lyrics inspired by 'history beneath our feat' performed by local school children, with poems by the top poet Michael Rosen and songs by the funny team at CBBC's songwriters commissioned by H...

This history trail audio is narrated by the poet Michael Rosen, with script researched by Helen Weinstein and the team at Historyworks. This recording is part of a series of Cambridge history trails which have lyrics inspired by 'history beneath our feat' performed by local schoolchildren, with poems by the top poet Michael Rosen and songs by the funny team at CBBC's songwriters commissioned by Hi...

This history trail audio is narrated by the poet Michael Rosen, with script researched by Helen Weinstein and the team at Historyworks. This recording is part of a series of Cambridge history trails which have lyrics inspired by 'history beneath our feat' performed by local schoolchildren, with poems by the top poet Michael Rosen and songs by the funny team at CBBC's songwriters commissioned by Hi...

LYRICS by CBBC's Horrible Histories song-writer, Dave Cohen 1845 Cambridge railway Station built beyond our Mill Road Wonder if the first train to arrive Came when the clock said 1845

FREEDOM TRAIN BY ROLLO DILLWORTH - for educational learning purposes only! Enjoy singing using transcription of lyrics below: verse1 Woo Woo ((All aboard! Just get on board! Get on board! )) Woo Woo ((All aboard! Just get on board! Get on board! )) ((Shout hallelujah! All aboard the freedom train )) Bound for glory where peace and justice reign. One day we shall overcome, can’t go back to where we...

FREEDOM TRAIN BY ROLLO DILLWORTH - for educational learning purposes only! Enjoy singing using transcription of lyrics below: verse1 Woo Woo ((All aboard! Just get on board! Get on board! )) Woo Woo ((All aboard! Just get on board! Get on board! )) ((Shout hallelujah! All aboard the freedom train )) Bound for glory where peace and justice reign. One day we shall overcome, can’t go back to where we...

FREEDOM TRAIN BY ROLLO DILLWORTH - for educational learning purposes only! Enjoy singing using transcription of lyrics below: verse1 All aboard! Just get on board! Get on board! All aboard! Just get on board! Get on board! Shout hallelujah! All aboard the freedom train ((Bound for glory where peace and justice reign. One day we shall overcome, can’t go back to where we started from)) Freedom train...

FREEDOM TRAIN BY ROLLO DILLWORTH - for educational learning purposes only! Enjoy singing using transcription of lyrics below: verse1 All aboard! Just get on board! Get on board! All aboard! Just get on board! Get on board! Shout hallelujah! All aboard the freedom train ((Bound for glory where peace and justice reign. One day we shall overcome, can’t go back to where we started from)) Freedom train...

Don’t think you can take the migrants out of me. Every time I hear you say all the wrongs that migrants supposedly do, you are saying it to the migrants in me, people who travelled thousands of miles so they could work in sweat shops, in boot and shoe factories, on market stalls, people who ran from danger, threats, hate, bullets and bombs. Maybe I look as if you could take the migrants out of me,...

I went to see my father’s cousin Michael. He was born in Poland. When the Nazis came in the west his parents put him on a train going east and he never saw them again. They died in a Nazi death camp. When the Russians came in the east he was arrested, put on a train and sent to one of the Russians camps. But he lived. When I went to see him he wouldn’t tell me any of this. When he went out of the...

What is racism? It’s a clockmender who left his country to get a better living and all is fine until things start changing there’s an invasion he and his wife run to another town and the people who are supposed to keep law and order decide to put him and his wife on a list and then they decide that they will make them wear a special badge marking them out as different and then they decide that the...

In the beginning was the word and the word is ours: the names of places, the names of flowers, the names of names, words are ours. Page-turners for early learners How to boil an egg or mend a leg Words are ours Wall charts Love hearts Sports reports Short retorts Jam-jar labels Timetables Words are ours Following the instructions for furniture constructions Ancient mythologies Online anthologies W...

When we talk about sisters and brothers and fathers and mothers when it comes to my dad there’s always a place where there’s a bit of a space. It’s a gap with no one there. It’s a father, a dad, over there somewhere. When we talk about sisters and brothers and fathers and mothers and we get to the sisters and brothers of my father’s father he shuts his eyes and says he’d rather not talk about that...

Don’t drown. Practise swimming for a long, long time. Don’t drown. Practise shouting, ‘Help!’ Don’t drown. Keep the water out. Don’t drown. Call for help. Don’t drown. If you see the water rising, leave. Don’t drown. If you think you’re sinking, grab something. Don’t drown. If you think there’s no way out, you’re probably wrong and there is a way out. Find it Don’t drown. If you think you’re stuck...

She sat in the back of the van and we waved to her there we ran towards her but the van moved off we ran faster she reached out for us the van moved faster we reached for her hand she stretched out of the back of the van we ran, reaching the van got away we stopped running we never reached her before she was gone.

In our flat faces speak of places across the sea. In our flat voices walk in talking, but not like me. In our flat books fly around us saying, ‘Never stop saying “Why?”’. In our flat stories stroke us until we cry. In our flat, there was a mother and father who were born so poor they told us: even if we now have more no one is worse than you; things could be fair if we learned how to share, and th...