These slides are designed to be used over 8-10 lessons with sixth form. they are very lecture based in style but provide opportunity for source evaluation and analysis alongside wider themes of change and consequence over the period. They can be used with the OCR Ancient History A Level or as part of a NEA core teaching slot for the basis of personal research later. I would reccommend the Cromarty, Harrsion and Matthews Textbook as a companion but it is not needed as the slides are fully functional without them. Includes some reccommendations for extra reading both in scholarship and sources.

This resource is designed as part of a sequence tackling the core module of OCR’s Ancient History A level, although it can be easily used to adapt for coursework across any A level option. This set of slides uses interactive discussion, source analysis and key lecturing points to cover the reign of Tiberius and is suitable to be adapted alongside other resources. It contains roughly three to five lessons of content based on ability and teaching style.

This resource is a full unit of work on the reign of the emperor Nero which examines the end of the Julio-Claudian dynasty and the impact of this on the Roman empire as a whole. It examines key topics such as; the Quinquennium Neronis, The death of Aggrippina, The role of individuals in shaping the reign of Nero, the importance of the military, and the collapse of Nero’s reign. There are detailed lecturing slides, rigorous source activities, full essay assessments and engagements with modern scholarship. these have been successfully used with A Level students and have been very well peer reviewed. Hopefully you find them useful. They feed into a wider body of work which can be downloaded as a bundle for the entire OCR core unit on the Julio-Claudians.

This resource is designed to be taught as part of a series (see my shop) for the OCR Ancient History A level. This encourages a balanced exploration of Caligula and looks at the key moments in his reign. It relies on a variety of teaching styles but leans most on questioning, lecture slides, and source investigation. It is fully referenced directly to the prescribed sources and additional sites where information can be gained and could be easily added to using perseus to encourage greater source awareness. This lesson explores the nature of power and the wider question of whether or not the senate could regain control after the rule of Caligula.

This features the full social, economic, political and military events of the reign of the Emperor Claudius as taught for the OCR A Level specification. This unit contains multiple lessons worth of content and looks into the detailed break down of key individuals, the rise of the equestrian class and freedmen under Claudius and the thematic discussion of the decline of empire. It contains wider questions which can be used for minor assessments as well as feeding in alongside my other resources for this unit into a major module essay. It makes reference to both ancient sources and modern scholarship and includes rigorous source evaluation tasks.

This introductory lesson is suitable for zoom/home learning where internet access for research is limited. It gives a series of lecture slides to introduce them to such key topics as Guy Fawkes, the divine right of kings, Oliver Cromwell and the Civil War. This is designed as an opener for discussions where each of these topics is revisited in a later lesson. There are differentiated outcomes to pair with these resources.