This activity is split into two parts. The first involves a tour of the archive centre to show students the route a document follows from the moment it arrives here to when it can be consulted by archive users.

The second part is a research workshop using different kinds of documents for reflection and research, to extract important information on our history and, more specifically, on a very concrete period, the Industrial Revolution, and the social changes it produced.

Its learning goals are to:

• Learn about the functions and the types of documents conserved at the Sants-Montjuïc District Municipal Archives.
• Reflect on the importance of conserving documents, a source of historical knowledge.
• Identify the main factories in Sants from the end of the 19th to the beginning of the 20th centuries.
• Deduce what working-class life was like in that period.
• Establish the differences between the lives of workers and capitalists.

Educational levels: upper cycle of primary education.

Approximate duration of the activity: 2 hours

Price: free.

Bookings: Please call +34 932 914 240 or email amds@bcn.cat.