It's likely that those of us who can still remember the history we 'did' in the Junior School will have similar recollections. The Romans almost certainly featured, and possibly the 'olden days', when ladies wore crinoline dresses and were carried about in sedan chairs, watched by gentlemen with deformed legs suffering from gout. I remember the Ancient Greeks, and most of all, those gods only I was never quite sure about them. Were they people or weren't they? They lived, so I believed, up there in the mist on Mount Olympus, just where we lesser mortals less than half their size couldn't quite see what they were up to. But yes, they were real alright because of those human activities which always interested me more than their supernatural powers. In this article you will read about children in Primary School, aged seven and eight, whose first encounter with history in school was finding out about real people, from people; collecting and using their own source material like the professional historian. Family History has been tried successfully in Berkshire schools for many years under the guidance of D. J. Steel and L. Taylor; Oral Hlistory is well established in at least two Universities, and adult historians who practice history as a leisure activity have produced several valuable monographs as a result of interviewing old people; but I know of no previous work which has been done with children so young, several of whom had minimal language skills. Our project began with a photograph which was produced by the Librarian of the Cambridgeshire Collection, when I mentioned one day the school I was working in. It had been built in I908, and in the old photo, builder's rubble could still be seen in the background. Better than this, however, was the row of girls, dressed in their outdoor clothes black stockings, lace-up boots and hats. They were gardening. A check on the School Log Book revealed that gardening had indeed been on the curriculuma girls' subject while the boys did woodwork. My children recognised the spot where the photo had been taken immediately, and could line up in front of the same drainpipe. Alas, the garden was no longer there; and though a tiny patch of grass has been retained, the area is largely asphalted for car parking. But their curiosity was aroused by those strangely dressed pupils from another time, and their reaction was similar to the time they had seen Polynesian dancers on a film'funny'. A concept of time is something most children come to late in maturation, and we used a number line, as in mathematics, going backwards. Fortunately, in the Primary School, you can blur lines a little, unlike the graduate historian writing a thesis; and we arrived at the conclusion that when the pupils at school had looked like those in the photo, the children's grandmothers would have been the