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Sean and Robot are trying to set up a custard cream business to sell biscuits all over the world, but first they need to learn all about trade. In this episode we find out about cargo ships from the early days of the Vikings to today’s mega cargo ships. 

Sean and Robot are trying to set up a custard cream business to sell biscuits all over the world, but first they need to learn all about trade. In this episode we find out about cargo ships from the early days of the Vikings to today’s mega cargo ships.

Ships are a pretty clever invention… have you ever wondered how they actually work or what the very first boats were like? Sean’s exploring the history and science behind ships!

Sean's Ships: How Ships Work for Kids

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Cargo Ships (Sean's Ships Bringing The World Together)

Marina and Map App explore the technology that will help us work together to create microgrids to share energy, and the tech super powers that will help.

Marina and Map App explore the technology that will help us work together to create microgrids to share energy, and the tech super powers that will help.

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6. Drapers Hall

7. Boundary Marker

8. St Botolph's & Victorian Turkish Bath House

9. Kindertransport

Professor Horatio Pendulum has a confession to make. The Chronosphere — his magnificent machine, hidden beneath the Timeporium Clock Shop — was only ever meant to peer safely into history. Instead he's overloaded it, torn a rift in time and scattered fragments of the past across the City of London. Roman soldiers are marching through the streets. There's a smell of burning bread in the air. And history, as the Professor puts it, is leaking.

That's where you come in. Join Dan and Bex as they follow the Chronosphere's riddles from landmark to landmark, meeting the lost travellers stranded in the wrong century — and helping every single one of them find the way home.

Before you set off: download the Time Hunter handbook for the map, the facts and space to write down everything you find. And pick yourself a suitably ancient alias while you're at it — Caesar Saladus if you're feeling peckish, Octavius Oops if you're a bit clumsy.

Professor Horatio Pendulum has a confession to make. The Chronosphere &mdash; his magnificent machine, hidden beneath the Timeporium Clock Shop &mdash; was only ever meant to peer safely into history. Instead he's overloaded it, torn a rift in time and scattered fragments of the past across the City of London. Roman soldiers are marching through the streets. There's a smell of burning bread in the air. And history, as the Professor puts it, is leaking.
That's where you come in. Join Dan and Bex as they follow the Chronosphere's riddles from landmark to landmark, meeting the lost travellers stranded in the wrong century &mdash; and helping every single one of them find the way home.
Before you set off: download the Time Hunter handbook for the map, the facts and space to write down everything you find. And pick yourself a suitably ancient alias while you're at it &mdash; Caesar Saladus if you're feeling peckish, Octavius Oops if you're a bit clumsy.

The Circular Trail: a free Time Hunters history walk around the City of London

We know it makes sense to save money for a raining day – but how can we save energy for when it’s needed?  Marina and Map App find out about the clever technology meeting this challenge.

We know it makes sense to save money for a raining day &ndash; but how can we save energy for when it&rsquo;s needed? &nbsp;Marina and Map App find out about the clever technology meeting this challenge.

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