History

Term 1.1 Sept – Oct Half Term

Civil War  Places to visit: Helmsley Castle, Marston Moor, Skipton Castle, Royal Armouries Leeds, Lichfield Cathedral  Documentaries to watch: The English Civil War (BBC), Cromwell: God’s Executioner, (Youtube), To Kill a King. David Starkey’s ‘Monarchy’ episode on the Stuart Succession. A History of Britain’ by Simon Schama episode on ‘The British Wars. o BBC Teach: (Youtube) What was life like during the British Civil Wars? | Hunting for History | BBC Teach o Crash Course: (Youtube) English Civil War: Crash Course European History  Books to read: Rebels and Traitors, Children of the New Forest, The English Civil War at First Hand, Tristan Hunt. A Time Traveller’s Guide to Restoration England by Ian Mortimer. A very short introduction: The Industrial Revolution by Robert Allen, A very short introduction: Stuart Britain by John Morrill  Websites to visit: http://stuarts-online.com/. http://bcw-project.org/.  Things to listen to: Trial of Charles I ‘In Our Time’ Podcast http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00kpzd6 Great Fire of London http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00ft63q Restoration of the Monarchy http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00547bx History Extra (Spotify Podcast) Female Spies of the Civil War Era

Tasks to complete:  Research the painting below ‘When did you last see your father?’  Write a short historical story about the characters in the painting.

Term 1.2 Oct to Christmas

Slavery/ Empire  Places to visit: Slavery Museum in Liverpool, Harewood House, Wilberforce Museum Hull,  Documentaries to watch: Black and British: A Forgotten History (Youtube), Twelve Years a Slave, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. o BBC TEACH: (YouTube) Abolitionism and why it was opposed | History - Britain's Forgotten Slave Owners, British slave owners in the 1830's | History - Britain's Forgotten Slave Owners, How Barbados became the first slave society | History - Britain's Forgotten Slave Owners, How wealthy slave owners entered British aristocracy | History - Britain's Forgotten Slave Owners, Why British slave owners received compensation | History - Britain's Forgotten Slave Owners o Crash Course: (Youtube) The Atlantic Slave Trade: Crash Course World History  Books to read: Children of Blood and Bone, Tomi Adeyemi, Sugar in the Blood: A Family's Story of Slavery and Empire, Freedom over Me by Ashley Bryan, Chains by Laurie Hale Anderson. A Short History of Slavery by James Walvin. The Slave Trade (History Files) by James Walvin.  Websites to visit: https://sites.google.com/a/york.ac.uk/online-history- resources/home/slavery-the-abolition-project, https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z2qj6sg, https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/slavery, https://www.britannica.com/topic/slavery-sociology and https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/slavery/  Things to listen to: ‘In Our Time’ podcast: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00548jd William Wilberforce http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00774j0, Dan Snow’s History Hit: Slavery with Professor Christer Petley (Spotify) You’re Dead To Me: Harriet Tubman (Spotify podcast), History Extra (Spotify Podcast): Slave Revolt.

Tasks to complete:  Look at the website: A History of the World in 100 Objects and research some of the African artefacts.

Industrial Revolution  Places to Visit: Beamish, Abbey House Museum Leeds, Armley Mills, Saltaire, Thackeray Museum, National Railway Museum, Bradford Industrial Museum, Yorkshire Mining Museum, Cliffe Castle Museum Keighley, Kelham Island Museum, Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet and Shepherd Wheel Sheffield, Workhouse Museum (Ripon).  Documentaries to watch: The Victorian Slum (Youtube) The Children Who built Victorian Britain, (Youtube) The Worst Jobs in History – Victorian (Youtube), England’s Horrible Workhouse (Youtube) o BBC Teach: (YouTube): The invention of the steam engine | Physics - The Genius of Invention, The impact of the steam engine | Physics - The Genius of Invention, The invention of the steam locomotive | Physics - The Genius of Invention, The invention of the railway | Physics - The Genius of Invention, The importance of coal | History - Why the Industrial Revolution Happened Here, The brains behind the Industrial Revolution | History - Why the Industrial Revolution Happened Here, Josiah Wedgwood: Industrial Revolution genius | History- Why The Industrial Revolution Happened Here, Transport revolution: Britain's canal network | History- Why The Industrial Revolution Happened Here, The world that railways made | History - History of Railways o Crash Course: (Youtube) The Industrial Revolution: Crash Course European History and Coal, Steam, and The Industrial Revolution: Crash Course World History  Books to read: Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens, The House of Silk, Anthony Horowitz, Horrible Jobs of the Industrial Revolution by Leon Gray, The Industrial Revolution by Nigel Smith, My Story: Workhouse, My Story: Factory Girl  Websites to visit: https://ageofrevolution.org/the-peterloo-graphic-novel-available-free-to- schools-now/  Things to listen to: ‘In Our Time: the Industrial Revolution’ at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00wqdc7 Consequences of the Industrial Revolution http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00wr9r7 Lancashire Cotton Famine http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05tly3f , You’re Dead to Me Podcast: The Victorian Christmas (Spotify)

Tasks to complete:  Research your own family tree back into the period of the Industrial Revolution.  Find out about the kinds of jobs your ancestors did and research the places you lived.  Have a look at the Census online.  Or you can research the place you live in and see how it has changed since 1700.

Term 2.1: Christmas to Feb Half Term First World War  Places to Visit: York Army Museum, Leeds City Museum, Ypres/Somme/Continent, Royal Armouries Leeds, York Museum, Imperial War Museum, Manchester & London  Documentaries to watch: 37 Days, The Somme: Boy Sides of the Wire, They Shall Not Grow Old, David Olusoga: ‘The World’s War: Forgotten Soldiers of Empire,’ ‘The Great War’ BBC TV series (via YouTube) Women at work in WW1 | History – Britain’s Great War (BBC Teach Youtube), A German experience of fighting in WW1 | History - I Was There: The Great War Interviews (BBC Teach Youtube) o Lots of good video clips on WW1 on BBC Teach (Youtube) o Crash Course: (Youtube) WWI's Civilians, the Homefront, and an Uneasy Peace: Crash Course European History and World War I Battlefields: Crash Course European History  Books to read: Remembrance: Therese Breslin, Sebastian Faulks: Birdsong, Pat Barker: Regeneration, Michael Murpogo: Private Peaceful, War Horse, Poppy in the Field, Friend or Foe, My Story: The Trenches  Poems to read: Wilfrid Owen: In Flanders Field, Anthem for Doomed Youth", "Futility", "Dulce Et Decorum Est", "The Parable of the Old Men and the Young" and "Strange Meeting".  Websites to visit: British Library resources: https://www.bl.uk/world-war-one, Research the lives of soldiers at https://livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/  Things to listen to: Dan Snow’s History Hit: The Indian Army in World War One with Dr Priya Atwal and George Morton-Jack, How Should we remember the First World War? With Dan Todman, The Events of November 1919 with Paul Reed, WW1 Shipwrecks with the Maritime Archaeology Trust, Chinese Labour Corps in WW1 with Wenlan Peng, African Experiences in WW1 with John Akomfrah (Spotify podcasts)

Tasks to complete:  Choose a country from the British/French/German Empire: Research what their soldiers did in the War.  Research men who signed up in your local area.  Visit a war memorial near you and find out about anyone who died.  Find out if anyone in your family fought in the war and where and retell their story  Look at the website of the war graves commission to see if you can find out about soldiers who share your name. Look at the Imperial War Museum website to listen to first-hand accounts of the war  Create a 3D model of a trench system  Research General Douglas Haig and write an answer to the question ‘Was Haig to blame for the Slaughter at the Somme?’

Term 2.2 and 3.1: Feb – May Half Term World War II  Places to visit: Eden Camp, Leeds City Museum, Royal Armouries Leeds, York Museum, Yorkshire Air Museum, Imperial War Museum, Manchester & London  Documentaries/ Films to Watch: Saving Private Ryan, Battle of Britain, The Longest Day, Patton, World War II in Colour (Netflix), Imperial War Museum website, Hitler: The Rise of Evil (YouTube), BBC ‘The Nazis a Warning from History’ ‘The World at War’ BBC TV series (via YouTube), Blitz Street documentary 4 episodes on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0v2Uq8z7aI, Suzanne Rappaport's Holocaust Story YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5Ztyc77rN8, Edith Jayne's Holocaust Story (Q&A) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9veu7nUeYfI  Books to read: Goodbye Mr Tom, When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit, Boy in the Striped Pyjama's, Two Brothers Ben Elton, Tamar by Mel Peet, The Book Thief, Diary of Anne Frank, Yellow Star by Jennifer Roy, Carrie’s War by Nina Bawden, A very short introduction: World War II by Gerhard L. Weinberg, My Story: The Blitz, My Story: D-Day, My Story: Sophie’s Secret War, Simple History: Hitler & the Rise of Nazi Germany by Daniel Turner  Websites to visit: National Army Museum: https://www.nam.ac.uk/explore/battle-alamein, Pearl Harbour investigation: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/worldwar2/theatres-of- war/pacific/investigation/pearl-harbor/sources/docs/5/  Things to listen to: Hitler in History ‘In Our Time’ Podcast http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00546wh, Atrocity in the 20th Century ‘In Our Time’ Podcast http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0054638, Dan Snow’s History Hit: The Battle of Okinawa, The Boy Who Followed His Father Into Auschwitz, Suicide at the Fall of Nazi Germany, Confronting a Nazi Past, Max Eisen: Surviving Auschwitz, The Man Who Volunteered for Auschwitz, Seducing and Killing Nazis, The Rise of Hitler, The Secret British Operation to get America into WW2, Living Through the Dresden Firebombing with Victor Gregg, The War in North Africa with Victor Gregg, Life as a Woman in World War Two with Eve Warton (Spotify podcasts) Tasks to do:  Find out if anyone in your family fought in the war and where and retell their story.  Create an illustrated timeline of World War II  Do some research about how the war affected people at home in Britain  Write a mini-biography for the significant figures of World War II: Churchill, Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Roosevelt

Women’s History

 Books to read: A History of Britain in 21 Women Jenni Murray, My Story: Suffragette, The Five by Hallie Rubenhold  Things to watch: o BBC Teach: How women fought for sexual & social equality | 100 Years of the Women’s Movement, How the suffragettes won British women the vote | 100 Years of the Women’s Movement, Women at work in WW1 | History – Britain’s Great War  Things to listen to: o Dan Snow’s History Hit (Spotify Podcasts): Cathy Newman on Bloody Brilliant Women, Mary Queen of Scots with Kate Williams, Suzannah Lipscomb on Uncovering the Lost Stories of Women in the Past, Margaret Beaufort Tudor Matriarch, Life as a Woman in World War Two with Eve Warton, The Violence of the Suffragettes with Fern Riddell, Sophie Scholl, Resistance Fighter with Frank McDonough (she was executed by the Nazis) o Greg Jenner’s You’re Dead To Me (Spotify Podcasts): Boudicca, Harriet Tubman, Joan of Arc, Mary Shelly (author of Frankenstein), Eleanor of Aquitaine o History Extra (Spotify Podcasts): Rachel Reeves on women who changed politics, Women who made modern Britain, The Women killed by Jack the Ripper, Medieval Warrior Queen, World-changing women, Were the Suffragettes Terrorists?