Travelling by water was an important part of Viking culture as it transported them overseas to distant lands as both invaders and as settlers.
Neil Oliver travels to Oslo to find out how the Vikings’ skills as shipbuilders and sailors enabled them to travel so far from their homeland.
Here, a close look at the famous Oseburg Ship reveals the extraordinary craftsmanship of the Vikings.
Out at sea, on a replica of a Viking boat, he learns how they used the sun to navigate their way across the open sea, and in Russia he discovers how the Vikings overcame rapids and ice to travel up its mighty rivers to trade in the East.
He finds evidence of an ancient settlement in Iceland from where Viking explorers embarked on journeys even further West, to become the first Europeans to discover North America.
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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.
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BBC Learning Zone - WW2: What would you have done when the Blitz bombs fell? Worksheet to support the BBC website
With World War Two entering its second year, Hitler stepped up his campaign against Britain. Civilians had already experienced rationing, blackouts, and grinding volunteer work. Now events were to take a terrifying turn as ordinary men and women found their lives at risk.
On 7 September 1940, the German air force launched a eight-month campaign that would rain explosives on 16 major British cities and many smaller towns. Homes were obliterated and historic centres destroyed. Daily life was now on the front line of battle where many people had to decide whether to leave or take their chances against the bombs.
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BBC Teach - Class Clips - History KS3 / GCSE: Small Axe - The Mangrove Nine
Rochenda Sandall, who plays one of The Mangrove Nine in Steve McQueen’s Small Axe, tells the true story of this significant event in black British history.
The Mangrove restaurant was opened in March, 1969, by Trinidadian Frank Crichlow. The restaurant became a home from home for the black community in Notting Hill.
It attracted artists, musicians and activists from around the world. Bob Marley, Marvin Gaye, Jimmy Hendrix, Nina Simone, Diana Ross and the Supremes, all congregated at the Mangrove to enjoy Caribbean food.
But the Mangrove restaurant became a target for the police, which ended up destroying it.
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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
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Did the suffragettes win women the vote?
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BBC Teach > Secondary Resources > KS3 History / GCSE History > People Power
Struggling against the powerful is a tradition that stretches back generations. Change is often presented as a gift granted by the powerful, but it has much to do with the struggle and sacrifice of those from below.
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BBC Teach - Class Clips - Gandhi and India’s Independence - Andrew Marr’s History of the World. Worksheet to support the BBC Documentary excerpt
Andrew Marr describes how Mahatma Gandhi led India to independence during British led rule through a campaign of civil disobedience. He explores the background to the campaign, the key events and negations, and Gandhi’s legacy through the 20th century.
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BBC Teach - Class Clips - History KS3 / GCSE: Hitler’s rise to power - Adolf Hitler’s rise to power - Worksheet written to support the Andrew Marr excerpt
Andrew Marr tells the story of Hitler’s rise to power in Weimar Germany from 1919 to 1933. He explores Hitler’s years in the wilderness after the First World War, the Munich Putsch and the reason for his electoral success in 1933.
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BBC Teach - Class Clips - History KS3 / GCSE: The Atomic bomb. Worksheet to support the BBC website
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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
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BBC Teach - The Industrial Revolution - Andrew Marr’s History of the World. Worksheet to support the documentary extract
Andrew Marr tells the story of Britain’s Industrial Revolution. He explores the context and triggers, the inventions and innovations that powered the revolution, He also looks at the important economic, political and social consequences. This clip is from the BBC series Andrew Marr’s History of the World. Marr goes on an epic journey through 70,000 years of human history, telling the story of how great forces of nature and individual genius shaped the world we live in today.
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BBC Teach - Class Clips - History KS3 & KS4/GCSE: The brains behind the Industrial Revolution.
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Coal and steam are easy factors to identify in the Industrial Revolution but brains were another key factor.
Eminent scientists like Sir Isaac Newton and Robert Boyle had made important discoveries about gravity, and the behaviour of gases.
These discoveries were harnessed and turned into business ideas by men like James Watt and his business partner Matthew Boulton.
Britain’s political system aided these developments.
Compared to most European states, the British Parliament held very little control over the economy, preferring to leave businessmen to run businesses rather than interfering.
At the same time, there was very little censorship or control of ideas and publications, so ideas could be circulated and developed.
In London, scientists met and discussed ideas at the Royal Society.
In the Midlands, the Lunar Society did much the same. Many scientists were interested in knowledge for its own sake, but there were others who were able to turn these ideas into new technologies to make fortunes too.
This short film is from the BBC series, Why the Industrial Revolution Happened Here.
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Worksheet to support the BBC Jeremy Paxman - Empire - Documentary extract
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This clip explores how, through the history of the British Empire, millions of people travelled huge distances across the world, some forced, and others looking for new opportunities.
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BBC Learning Zone - Was the British empire a force for good? (part 1/2) worksheet to support the BBC Jeremy Paxman Documentary: Empire
This clip tells the story of how Hong Kong came under British control, reflecting the Empire’s often ruthless pursuit of profit - opening up China for trade, at a cost of thousands of ruined lives.
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This clip explores the British expansion into Africa. In the summer of 1861, David Livingstone and a small band of missionaries travelled to what is now Malawi to establish the virtues of two Victorian obsessions – ‘Christianity and commerce’.
In the summer of 1861, David Livingstone and a small band of missionaries travelled to what is now Malawi to establish the virtues of two Victorian obsessions – ‘Christianity and commerce’. However, what Livingstone found in Africa shocked him. Britain had abolished slavery in the Empire decades before, but he still found Africans being captured and sold by Portuguese and Arab slavers. He made it his mission to rid West Africa of slavery. His crusade captured the minds of the public back home. People believed the Empire could be about more than conquest and dominance; it could be a force for good and justice. This clip is from the BBC series Empire. Jeremy Paxman travels the world exploring different aspects of the British Empire. He sets off in search of the extraordinary characters, burning ambitions and surprising principles which created an empire four times the size of ancient Rome.
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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.
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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:
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In this short film, historian David Olusoga looks at the lives of Black people in Britain in the 1600s and 1700s.
He looks at portraits in Ham House in Surrey, which feature images of young Black men and women as part of family groups of aristocrats.
Olusoga talks to Professor James Walvin, who suggests that often these figures were invented and were part of the exoticism associated with international trade and enslavement.
Walvin describes Black people in the UK as the ‘flotsam and jetsam’ of the slave trade, individuals who found themselves in the UK.
Most were in domestic service. Some were sailors in transit in and out of the ports. By the late 18th century the ideas of the French Revolution were spreading and some Black people were starting to have a political impact on British society.
These included Robert Wedderburn, who argued passionately for the emancipation of Black slaves and poor whites.
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Historian David Olusoga investigates how British slave owners fought for compensation as the Government moved towards abolishing slavery within the Empire in 1832.
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BBC Teach - How wealthy slave owners entered British aristocracy. Worksheet to support the Olusoga extract
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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