Farming in the Past: A Multimedia Learning Programme for Schools

The multimedia CD ROM is based on research into life in rural society largely based on a Journal kept between 1879 and 1892, important decades between the period of high farming and agricultural depression, by James Wilson, a farmer in Deskford, Banffshire. The Journal provides the basis for a learning programme contained within a multi-media CD ROM which will allow teachers and pupils to study life in rural Scotland. The CD ROM will move beyond this area to examine issues surrounding food production, past and present The program will contain a plethora of primary sources including, for example, film, photographs, music, extracts from newspapers, advertisements, maps, a database for the 1881 Banffshire census, and associated learning tasks.