Interest pathway
History Explorer
Evidence, arguments and unsolved cases. You decide what the sources actually prove.
Topics in this pathway
Investigations
The Tudors
Could you survive a week in Tudor England?
Seven days, one household, and a lot of very bad water.
Historical mysteries
What happened to the Princes in the Tower?
Two boys, one tower, five hundred years of argument.
Medicine through time
Five strange things people believed in Tudor England
Onions against plague, and why the theory made sense at the time.
Victorians
Could you survive Victorian London?
Cholera, crossing sweepers and thirteen-hour shifts.
Archaeology
Who really built Stonehenge?
Stones moved 150 miles by people without wheels or metal tools.
World War II
How did ordinary people experience the home front?
Rationing books, blackout curtains and evacuation labels.
Food through history
What did medieval people actually eat?
Less turnip misery, more spice and surprisingly strict rules.
World War I
The Christmas Truce of 1914
Enemies sang carols across No Man's Land — and it never happened at that scale again.
Ancient Egypt
How were Egyptian mummies really made?
Seventy days, one hook up the nose, and a purpose far bigger than preserving a body.
Vikings
Were Vikings really horned-helmet raiders?
One popular image of the Vikings turns out to be a nineteenth-century invention.
Castles
Why castles were built exactly where they were
Every castle site was a calculated decision, not a nice view.
Crime and punishment
How crime and punishment changed through British history
From trial by ordeal to Robert Peel's police force in under a thousand years.
Projects
Design a medieval castle
Design a defensible castle for a real site, then justify every feature historically.
Write a Tudor diary
Two weeks in the life of a Tudor household member, historically grounded.
Investigate the Black Death
Causes, spread, response and consequences — with a map and a timeline.
Compare rich and poor Victorian childhoods
A side-by-side study of two real children's lives in the same city.
Build a British monarchy timeline
An interactive timeline from 1066 to today with turning points marked.
Create a WWII home-front scrapbook
Assemble a family scrapbook using real source types from 1939–45.
Create a Roman newspaper
Front page, report, advert and opinion column from a chosen Roman year.