BBC Teach Class Clips - Why did Britain need a better road network? - Worksheet to support the BBC video In the early 1700s Britain’s road networks were simply not up to the task of moving the goods around the country which needed to be moved. Most of the roads were ancient, potholed and too small for modern business to be carried out. As Britain began to industrialise, this lack of transport made it very difficult to transport raw materials like coal or cotton. It was especially difficult for a businessman like Josiah Wedgwood, who reckoned that he sometimes lost one third of his shipments of pottery on Britain’s terrible roads. In 1706 Parliament passed the Turnpike Act which allowed private road builders to build new roads and charge tolls for using them. It was a first, important step towards the road transport network we know in Britain today. This short film is from the BBC series, Why the Industrial Revolution Happened Here. Written in Publisher and formatted to A3 the resource can be saved as a PDF for A4 printing A one page resource

Introductory/Revision Booklet based around the Pearson Christie & Christie textbook. The PDF version includes scans of existing free resources available from my shop and the Edexcel overview grid published on their website as supporting course materials.

Worksheet to support the BBC History File - Germany - Ep.3 The Master Race documentary. Comprehension and higher order questioning included. Designed to support both classroom and flipped learning opportunities as well as revision for the 9-1 GCSE

9-1 Medicine in Britain, c1250–present - BBC Breakthrough Documentary - Chadwick Worksheet to support the BBC Childrens Documentary hosted by John Craven Written in Publisher to an A3 printing format, it can be amended and saved as a PDF for A4 printing

BBC Teach - Class Clips - History KS3 / GCSE: The Atomic bomb. Worksheet to support the BBC website Worksheet to support the excerpt from Andrew Marrs’ History of The World Andrew Marr explores the development and deployment of the first atomic bomb. He describes the moral dilemma faced by the scientists of the Manhattan Project, and the fallout from the detonation of the bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima Written in Publisher and formatted to A3 the resource can be saved as a PDF for A4 printing This is a one page resource

BBC Teach Class Clips-History KS3 / KS4: The Barbados Slave Code - Worksheet to support the Olusoga extract Historian David Olusoga investigates the spread of the Barbados Slave Code across British colonies during the eighteenth century and its social and economic impact. He begins his narrative with the English settlement of Barbados in 1627 which resulted decades later in a lucrative sugar cane industry covering 40% of the island and cultivated by enslaved Africans. The clip emphasises the harsh and racist provisions of the code and its role in creating a slave society and economy controlled by the use of severe violence. British records quote Africans as being referred to as ‘heathenish’ and ‘brutal’. This is from the series: Britain’s Forgotten Slave Owners This resource is written in Publisher and formatted to A3 but can be saved as a PDF for A4 printing

A contextual slide for a quick overview of the Topic 1 content used at the start of each lesson in the unit of work

Canada: A People’s History - Episode 5- A Question of Loyalties - Supporting Worksheet Worksheet written for enrichment and extension activities as well as flipped learning

Andrew Marr - The Making of Modern Britain - Britannia at Bay - Supporting Worksheet Written in Publisher, formatted to A3, but can be edited and saved as a PDF to print as A4 The worksheet deals with the evacuation of Dunkirk and the use of the ‘Little Ships’ to facilitate the rescue of Allied troops leading to the Dunkirk myth. It was written to serve as a starter activity. The material covers the first 9 mins of the episode.

In this second episode of The Life of Muhammad, presenter Rageh Omaar continues to chart the story of The Prophet Muhammad. Drawing on the expertise and comment from some of the world’s leading academics and commentators on Islam, Omaar assesses and shines a light on key events in Muhammad’s life including the Night Journey to Jerusalem, his life threatening departure from Mecca, through to the establishment of the Constitution of Medina and the eight year war with the Meccan tribes. In line with Islamic tradition the programme does not depict any images of the face of Muhammad, or feature any dramatic re-constructions of Muhammad’s life. Written in Publisher and formatted to A3 the worksheet can be saved as a PDF for A4 printing

Resource written to support the Edexcel A Level: Britain: Losing and Gaining and Empire - 1763-1914 The worksheet is written to provide structured support for Chapter 43—Making the Weather in Ben Wilson's: Empire of the Deep for the teaching of Theme 2: The changing nature of the Royal Navy Designed to be printed on A3 it is written in Publisher but can be amended and printed as a PDF

What legacy has the British Empire left behind? Worksheet to support the Paxman, Empire Documentary extract The Empire brought blood and suffering to millions, but it also brought railways, roads and education. For good or ill, much of the world is the way it is today because of the Empire, from the way it looks, to the sports people play, from the religion we practise, to the language we speak: BBC - Empire - Learning Zone - What legacy has the British Empire left behind? Written in Publisher and formatted to A3 the resource can be saved as a PDF for A4 printing A one page resource

BBC American Voices - Ep3. Hard Times - Supporting Worksheet Worksheet written to support the BBC documentary. Written to support GCSE teaching, extension/enrichment work and flipped learning. The episode looks at the testimony of people who lived through Depression hit America Written in Publisher, formatted to A3, the document can be amended and saved as a PDF for A4 printing. Other episodes in the series are available from my shop

The Time Traveller’s Guide to Restoration Britain - Health and Hygiene- Supporting Worksheet for the Ian Mortimer book of the same name. Written as an extension/reading/ independent learning activity for able GCSE 9-1 students studying the history of medicine looking at the Renaissance / Tudor period and changing medical understanding in Britain. The resource is written as a WORD document for easy access to Google Classroom

Worksheet to support the Paxman BBC Great War video extract Jeremy Paxman introduces Lord Kitchener’s iconic patriotic recruitment campaign and tells us about the Pals regiments, which were formed of men from one local area or of the same profession. Lord Kitchener was Britain’s most famous living soldier in 1914, and newly appointed Minister of War. He launched a poster campaign on a huge scale, to persuade men to volunteer to fight. We see what the posters looked like, and hear about the different ways they encouraged men to sign up, inciting duty, fear of invasion and guilt. We see contemporary footage of public recruiting events, and hear how a patriotic mood swept the nation, causing men to enlist at unprecedented speed and scale. Search - BBC Teach - Class Clips - History GCSE / National 5: Why did thousands of men enlist at the start of WW1?

Kate Humble joins a team of geologists on a journey right to the heart of one of the most active volcanoes in the world. On the island of Tanna in the Vanuatu archipelago lies Yasur - a volcano that erupts constantly, firing out red-hot lava bombs and showering the island in thick black ash. To discover whether another devastating eruption might happen, the team needs to collect a lava bomb the minute it is hurled from the crater. As they prepare for their death-defying mission, Kate explores the island and discovers how the volcano shapes the lives, traditions and beliefs of everyone who lives in its shadow. Written in Publisher and formatted to A3, the resource can be saved as a PDF for A4 printing

Mansa Musa, the 14th century African king of the Mali Empire, is said to have amassed a fortune that possibly made him one of the wealthiest people who ever lived. Jessica Smith tells the story of how Mansa Musa literally put his empire – and himself – on the map. Search - Ted Talk Mansa Musa

Worksheets to support the BBC Documentary History File Episode Suitable for the new 9-1 History GCSE as lesson support, revision or flipped learning. Also appropriate for the legacy GCSE

What were relations like between the rulers and the ruled in the British Empire? Search - BBC - Empire - Learning Zone - What were relations like between the rulers and the ruled in the British Empire? Worksheet to support the BBC documentary Empire - Learning Zone extract. The early British settlers in India actively embraced Indian life and culture. Men like Charles Stuart, of the East India Company, didn’t fit the stereotype of Empire builders as arrogant, racist oppressors. Jeremy Paxman describes how earlier settlers adopted Indian clothing, customs and traditions. They also married Indian women or took Indian mistresses, leaving some 150 million people in the country today who have at least some British blood in their veins. Written in Publisher and formatted to A3 the resources can be saved as a PDF for A4 printing

BBC Teach - How wealthy slave owners entered British aristocracy. Worksheet to support the Olusoga extract Search - BBC Teach - How wealthy slave owners entered British aristocracy Historian David Olusoga visits Harewood House to explore how the wealth of slave owners returning from abroad in the mid-eighteenth century paid for monumental country estates at home - and sometimes elevation in to the British aristocracy. by the mid 18th century as slave owners in the Caribbean became increasingly wealthy from their sugar plantations they started to return home bringing with them their fortunes