History

A seven-chapter textbook study of causes, factories, cities, evidence, reform and historical judgement.

1. 1Chapter 1: Britain before the factories30 min
2. 2Chapter 2: Why did industrialisation begin in Britain?32 min
3. 3Chapter 3: Steam, cotton and the factory system32 min
4. 4Chapter 4: The new industrial city32 min
5. 5Chapter 5: Workers, children and factory evidence35 min
6. 6Chapter 6: Disease, evidence and public health35 min
7. 7Chapter 7: Reform and the industrial balance sheet38 min

Seven source-led lessons asking why England broke with Rome and how far ordinary life changed.

1. 1Lesson 1: England on the eve of Reformation38 min
2. 2Lesson 2: The King's Great Matter38 min
3. 3Lesson 3: Breaking with Rome38 min
4. 4Lesson 4: Dissolving the monasteries38 min
5. 5Lesson 5: Reformation from above and below38 min
6. 6Lesson 6: Edward, Mary and Elizabeth38 min
7. 7Lesson 7: Reformation balance sheet38 min

Seven source-led lessons from the succession crisis to Domesday, resistance and lasting change.

1. 1Lesson 1: A kingdom without an heir38 min
2. 2Lesson 2: The battles of 106638 min
3. 3Lesson 3: Conquest by castle38 min
4. 4Lesson 4: Resistance and the Harrying38 min
5. 5Lesson 5: Land, lordship and government38 min
6. 6Lesson 6: Church and culture38 min
7. 7Lesson 7: Domesday verdict38 min

Seven evidence-led lessons, including a carefully structured specialist Holocaust section centred on Jewish life, persecution, genocide, testimony and memory.

1. 1Lesson 1: Europe goes to war40 min
2. 2Lesson 2: War, society and memory40 min
3. 3Lesson 3: Democracy under pressure40 min
4. 4Lesson 4: The Holocaust: persecution to genocide40 min
5. 5Lesson 5: Britain and the Second World War40 min
6. 6Lesson 6: 1945 and a changing Britain40 min
7. 7Lesson 7: Britain and the world after empire40 min

Britain's role in global trade, slavery and its abolition.

1. 1Britain, trade and transatlantic slavery30 min
2. 2Why did abolition happen?30 min
3. 3Abolition: who ended the slave trade?30 min
4. 4Why historians disagree about empire28 min

Thematic studies and world societies that connect British history to global developments.

1. 1Tracing a theme through British history24 min
2. 2A significant world society: ancient Benin26 min
3. 3A world issue: the transatlantic slave trade28 min
4. 4A non-European contrast: Mughal India26 min

Placing events in context and joining up local, national and international history.

1. 1Joining up local, national and world history22 min

Medieval Britain, the Reformation, the growth of Parliament and the Civil Wars, taught as a connected story of who held power.

1. 1Church, state and society in medieval Britain, 1066-150930 min
2. 2The English Reformation and its impact30 min
3. 3Monarchy and the English Civil Wars30 min
4. 4Theory and practice of monarchy, 1509-174530 min
5. 5The emergence and growth of Parliament30 min

Industrial change in Britain, the transatlantic slave trade in the context of empire, and their long consequences.

1. 1Industry, empire and political power, 1745-190130 min
2. 2The transatlantic slave trade in the context of empire30 min

Second-order concepts, the rules of historical enquiry, how knowledge is constructed from sources, and the Holocaust and ideology in interpretation.

1. 1Change, cause and significance: thinking historically30 min
2. 2Enquiry, evidence and interpretations30 min
3. 3How our knowledge of the past is constructed30 min
4. 4The Holocaust, ideology and interpretation30 min

The three question types that decide GCSE history grades, taught properly at KS3.

1. 1How useful is this source? Answering it properly30 min
2. 2Why historians disagree: analysing interpretations30 min
3. 3Thematic study: change and continuity across centuries30 min

How the Tudors and Stuarts changed religion and the reach of royal power.

1. 1Why Henry VIII broke with Rome30 min
2. 2How much power did a Tudor or Stuart monarch really have?30 min

Why the English Civil Wars happened and how Parliament ended up on top.

1. 1Why did the English Civil Wars break out?30 min
2. 2How Parliament ended up in charge30 min

Steam, cities, factory work and the fight for public health and the vote.

1. 1Steam, factories and the fastest change in British history30 min
2. 2Factory reports, photographs and why historians disagree30 min

Britain's transatlantic slave trade, the resistance against it and how it ended.

1. 1Britain's transatlantic slave trade30 min
2. 2How abolition happened, and what empire had to do with it30 min

Running your own enquiry and tracing one theme right across the centuries.

1. 1Running your own historical enquiry30 min
2. 2One theme across the centuries: who holds power?30 min