History GCSE Twitter Resource Pack Below is a collection of curriculum specific broadcast material, sorted by exam board and then study theme. The document will be updated as new content is added and old content is removed. OCR – History B Thematic Study - The Peoples Health c1250 to present; Crime and Punishment c1250 to present; Migrants to Britain c.1250 to present. The Peoples Health c1250 to present - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p035cygx - History of Pharmacology – charting the use of potions, herbs and drugs to relieve suffering through the ages. - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p035cygy - A History of Healing – A report on healers around the world - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08q317p - In Our Time – Louis Pasteur – history of germ theory. - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0644gn8 - History of the National Health Service told through one hospital, the QEII. - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007753d - In Our Time – Microbiology – discusses Robert Koch and Louis Pasteur. - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0077501 - The Making of Modern Medicine – Culturing the Germ Theory. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00k9b7r/episodes/player - Whole section. - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p035cy0r - Modern Medicine - a look at how doctors in the East and West have been swapping ideas for centuries. - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00775zv - In Our Time – History of anaesthetics – laughing gas in the 1790s to the discovery of ‘blessed chloroform’. - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07dnnkm - In Our Time – Discovery of Penicillin - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00wgby7 - The Birth of the welfare state - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00w65my - Clip - Health and Housing in the 19th Century Crime and Punishment c1250 to present - https://www.bbc.co.uk/education/topics/z6xmn39/resources/1 - BBC Bitesize - Crime and Punishment through time Class Clips - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b02x9rfj/clips - BBC - London’s oldest prison – the first prison for female convicts. - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00w65b1 - BBC - Clip - How to punish the 18th and 19th Century Criminal? Migrants to Britain c.1250 to present - http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/modern/arrival_01.shtml - BBC History page - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00h8xkq - The Voyage of the Windrush – 1948 - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b065z2x3/episodes/player - Three Pounds in My Pocket –Pioneering women who arrived from India in the 50s and 60s talk about their experiences. - http://www.channel4.com/programmes/jon-snow-explains/on-demand/61877-004 - John Snow - Immigration – Is Britain Getting Full? - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03mn9lp - Muslims in Britain – history of mass migration to England. Period Study - Viking Expansion c750 -1050; The Mughal Empire 1526-1707; The Making of America 1789-1900. Viking Expansion c750 -1050 - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p017j146 - Documentary about the Vikings who colonised Greenland and allegedly discovered North America. - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0074r2x - Kenneth Clark’s Civilisation – the lives of Vikings. - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03cv2jm - Vikings in the Americas - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p033jwl5 - Viking Longboats - description of the longboats. The Mughal Empire 1526-1707 - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p004y27h - In Our Time – The Mughal Empire history - http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/0/20258255 - The Mughal Empire through art and culture. - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05wq1fh - Story of Akbar – the greatest ruler of the Mughal Empire. The Making of America 1789-1900 - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p033k65v - Making America with historian Christopher Cook - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00548gg - In Our Time – The American West - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00j0h9g - American West - Garden Love World Depth Study – The First Crusade c.1070-1100; Aztecs and the Spanish Conquest 1519-1535; Living under Nazi Rule. The First Crusade c.1070-1100 - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03cg6b2 - The Radio History of the World - The Crusades, the First Ideological War Aztecs and the Spanish Conquest 1519-1535; - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09nrsfv - BBC Radio 4 - Did typhoid kill the Aztecs? - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p033jzrv - BBC World Service - Mexico - The Aztecs - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00548v0 - BBC In Our Time - The Aztecs - Bragg and guests discuss the Aztec Empire. - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cswbjt - Living with the Gods – Discussion of an Aztec knife made for human sacrifice. - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00tt5tr - Neil MacGregor looks at Aztec history through a two-headed serpent talisman. - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b016924x - BBC In Our Time - The Siege of Tenochtitlan – Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the siege. Living under Nazi Rule - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01p0hn0/clips - The Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler – clips - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p033k7l2 - BBC World Service - Adolf Hitler – how did a former soldier, failed artist and homeless drifter become the most brutal dictator the world has ever seen? - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03njt7n - BBC World Service – Discussion of Professor Daniel Goldhagen’s book ‘Hitler’s Willing Executioners’. - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p009bf3z/clips - BBC - Clips - AJP Taylors view on Hitler - https://www.bbc.co.uk/education/clips/z7yqhyc - BBC Bitesize - Clips - Girls and Boys in Nazi Germany History A Period Study and non-British depth study – International relations: the changing international order 1918-c.2001; Conflict and cooperation 1918-1939; The Cold War 1945-1989; From the end of the Cold War to 9/11; China 1950-1981: The People and the State; Germany 1925-1955: The People and the State; Poland 1956-1990: The People and the State; Russia 1928 -1964: The People and the State; South Africa 1960-1994: The People and the State. International relations: the changing international order 1918-c.2001 - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b047bs63 - Balancing Power in World War I and Now Conflict and cooperation 1918-1939 The Cold War 1945-1989 - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p034s72s - The Nuclear Arms Race - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p033xcs0 - Cold War Spy – My Century - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08y00y3 - The New Cold War in the 1980s – Cold War stories from the Big Freeze - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p034s712 - Sino-Soviet tensions - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csvrh4 - The Birth of Space Science - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06j6lh3 - The Jazz ambassadors of the Cold War - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03cg396 - 1988 - The Cold War Ends - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p033k1jr - The World That Came in From the Cold – The Cold War Thaw - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p033w568 - Moments That Changed Our World – Man on the Moon 1969 - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p057dydf - The Documentary - Rocking the Stasi – did music help bring down the Berlin wall? From the end of the Cold War to 9/11 - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03bh51r - Changes since the Cold War China 1950-1981: The People and the State; - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03mbkrj - Evolution of Modern China - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08fwwjq - Witness - Chairman Mao’s Red Guard - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04d5fm1 - Chairman Mao’s Cultural Revolution - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0468lw7 - Remembering Chairman Mao - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03cgcnl - Death of Chairman Mao – were reactions genuine? - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01xvvbb - Mao’s Long March – 1931 – context - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01sbmkh - Deng Xiaoping and the making of modern China Germany 1925-1955: The People and the State; - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01jgj0p - BBC Radio 4 – Thing We Forgot to Remember – Morgenthau Plan and post-war Germany - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0376l1m - 50 years after – Living with German History - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p034s734 - How It All Began – The Yalta Agreement that split Germany - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01yjjbq - Willy Brandt’s Spy Scandal - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06ns27j - Matthew Bannister on Helmut Schmidt Poland 1956-1990: The People and the State; Russia 1928 -1964: The People and the State - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03jrm4h - Stalin - Heroes or Villains – Discussion of Stalin’s cult of personality - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0069cfz - Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin at Yalta - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01936z9 - BBC Witness - Stalin’s Gulag - Eyewitness account of life in the Gulag - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01503b4 - Witness - The Death of Joseph Stalin - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07knkhm - BBC Radio 4 – Cold War: Stories from the Big Freeze - Khrushchev’s Thaw - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p033xdg2 - BBC World Service - Churchill’s Interpreter – Hugh Lunghi, Churchill’s Russian interpreter, discusses his memories of the Tehran Conference. - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p033xdrt - Best of My Century – Communism - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p033wsjz - Khrushchev - I wish I’d Met – A discussion of what Khrushchev was like. - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00dvnpq - Khrushchev’s Secret Speech – Discussion of Khrushchev’s 1956 speech in which he denounced Stalin as a brutal tyrant. - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b039kv61 - The Cuban Missile Crisis: As Seen from Moscow and Havana - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00zf16n - Cuban Missile Crisis – The Showdown - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00zzz2d - The Communist Cosmos – a discussion of the Soviet Union’s forays into space and how the Soviet Union saw it as key to their global superiority. - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00hz33f - BBC Witness - The Kitchen Debate – In July 1959 Khrushchev and Nixon went head to head in public.