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Early 20th Century (KS3)

Battle plans, maps and unit war diaries chronicle the conflict between Europe's great powers.

From 1915 read the Cabinet discussions on the progress of the war at the highest level.

Topics
- Focus on Film
  Investigate film as a historical source
  
  Key stage 2 - 5
- Moving Here
  200 years of the history of migration to England
  
  Key stage 2 - 4
- Great War
  Outbreak, experience, peacemaking and remembrance
  
  Key stage 3 - 4
- - British Empire
    Rise and decline of the first global empire
    
    Key stage 3 - 4
  - Crime and Punishment
    From heretics and poachers to car crime and walkie-talkies
    
    Key stage 2 - 5
  - Britain 1906-18
    Contrast, contradiction and change
    
    Key stage 2 - 5
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Lessons
- General Haig
  Butcher of the Somme or hero of Amiens?
  
  Key stage 3 - 4
- Cats and Mice
  What tactics were used by suffragettes, police and government?
  
  Key stage 3
- Outrage at Kew
  What's the story of this suffragette attack?
  
  Key stage 3
- - Jutland: Death at Sea
    Were lives wasted when the Indefatigable sank?
    
    Key stage 3 - 4
  - Life Aboard the Titanic
    Who was on board?
    
    Key stage 3 - 4
  - How We Were Taught
    What was school like 100 years ago?
    
    Key stage 2 - 3
  - School Dinners
    Why were school dinners brought in?
    
    Key stage 3 - 4
  - The Zeppelin Raids
    How did Great War Zeppelin raids affect British civilians?
    
    Key stage 3 - 4
  - A Great War Soldier's Record
    What can we find out?
    
    Key stage 3 - 4
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Workshops

Videoconferences
- All Pals Together
  A First World War soldier's story
  
  Key stage 3 - 4
- The Sinking of the Titanic
  Why were so many lives lost in the disaster?
  
  Key stage 3

Virtual classroom
- All Pals Together
  A First World War soldier's story
  
  Key stage 3 - 4
- The Sinking of the Titanic
  Why were so many lives lost in the disaster?
  
  Key stage 3
- Virtual Classroom Taster
  Introduction to our innovative interactive online sessions
  
  Key stage 1 - 5

Time periods

History by numbers

60

Age of Edward VII at his coronation
628

Victoria Crosses awarded for actions during the First World War
181

3rd class survivors of the sinking of the Titanic
9,200,000

Women voters in 1918 election
19,240

British soldiers killed on the first day of the Battle of the Somme

For teachers

For students