Worksheet to support the BBC Jeremy Paxman - Empire - Documentary extract
Search - BBC Learning Zone - How did the British Empire affect migration?
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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Worksheet written to support the David Olusoga documentary extract
Historian David Olusoga investigates how British slave owners fought for compensation as the Government moved towards abolishing slavery within the Empire in 1832.
Search - BBC Teach - Class Clips - History KS3 / KS4: How British slave owners fought for compensation
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BBC Teach - The story of British indentured workers emigrating to America
Search - BBC Teach - Class Clips - History KS3 / GCSE: The story of British indentured workers emigrating to America
Four hundred years ago all manner of children, teenagers, and young men and women, mainly from the poorest families, were sent, often against their will, to board ships leaving from Bristol across the Irish Sea, and into the Atlantic Ocean.
They were sent to meet the growing demand for cheap labour in Britain’s newly created colonies in North America.
From 1610 to American independence in 1776, half a million people left Britain for North America.Some were political and religious dissenters, like the Puritans, Quakers and the Irish and Scottish Presbyterians.And some were convicts, sent by the British government to clear out its overcrowded prisons.
But around half - that’s a quarter of a million - were indentured servants.
And most were sent against their will.
In this short film David Olusoga meets writer Don Jordan, who tells the stories of some of these young people.
This short film is from the BBC series, Migration
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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
BBC Teach - Abolitionism and why it was opposed - Britain’s Forgotten Slave Owners
Written to support the BBC Teach David Olusoga clip
Search - Abolitionism and why it was opposed | History - Britain’s Forgotten Slave Owners
Historian David Olusoga investigates the resistance to abolishing slavery among British slave owners, including the threat they perceived to the profitable overseas sugarcane industry. He deliberately contrasts William Wilberforce, leader of the abolitionists, with George Hibbert, a slave owner, who worshipped in the same church in Clapham. Olusoga also refers to the family of the Victorian Prime Minister William Gladstone, whose fortunes were based on sugar plantations in Guyana. Like other slave owners he points out that they were determined to protect their sole supply of labour- slaves. Olusoga also uses slave ledgers updated every three years from 1817 to 1834 to point out the high mortality rates among slaves - evidence of their poor treatment.
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What were relations like between the rulers and the ruled in the British Empire?
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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.
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A5 Data collection worksheet to support the Paxman clip from his Empire documentary series
Search - BBC Learning Zone - What was the role of money and trade in the British Empire?
This clip explores the idea that the British Empire wasn’t simply about conquest for conquest’s sake; but was built by a ruthless pursuit of wealth through money, profit and trade.
The cultural changes brought to Britain by the Normans based upon Episode 2 of Robert Bartlet’s BBC Documentary series
Search - BBC - The cultural changes brought to Britain by the Normans
Professor Robert Bartlett describes the cultural changes that the Normans brought to Britain.
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The full documentary has a supporting worksheet on my shop:
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A short film for secondary schools, presented by David Olusoga, which explores the lives of some of the hundreds of black migrants who were in England during the Tudor period.
Olusoga visits The National Archives in Kew, where he meets Dr. Miranda Kaufmann.
They discuss John Blanke, a trumpeter in the court of Henry VIII, who was so well established that he actually submitted a request for a pay rise, and a diver, Jacques Francis, who gave evidence in a court case.
Dr. Kaufmann concludes that some black people in England were accorded greater privileges than many white English people at the time.
Search - BBC Teach - CLass Clips - KS3 / KS4 / GCSE History: The story of black migrants in Tudor England
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Through the medium of sand art, Dan Snow recreates a map of Europe on the beach in Blackpool. Dan’s sand map will reveal the geopolitics of the continent as it stood on the brink of war.
The sequence of crises that took place often seems murky to the uninitiated. The mists of time and the recriminations of the parties involved have combined to make the events that led to war seem ambiguous and confusing.
Now, using remarkable sand art, Dan brings his clarity of style and presentation to bear on the subject, shedding new light on our descent into a war that would touch the lives of millions across Europe and highlighting the reasons behind a conflict that is, all too fast, receding in our collective memory.
Search - BBC Teach - Class Clips - History KS3/4: Britain and the start of World War One
BBC Teach > Secondary Resources > History KS3 / History KS4
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This clip explores the British obsession with sport and games. They took their games all over the globe and tried to use them as a means of binding the various peoples of the British Empire together.
Search: BBC Empire Learning Zone What can cricket tell us about the British Empire?
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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.
Search - BBC Teach - Class Clips - KS2 / KS3 History: Viking ships
BBC Teach > Primary Resources / Secondary Resources > History KS2 / History KS3 > Vikings
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India was the most important territory of the British Empire. In the 18th century, India was an advanced civilisation and the rulers regarded the British with disdain. By the 1750s, this had changed and the balance of power had shifted in favour of the British
Search - BBC Empire Learning Zone - ‘How did the British gain control of India?’
Written to support the teaching of the British Empire to Ks3 students the worksheet supports the BBC Teach ‘How did the British gain control of India?’ extract from Jeremy Paxman’s ‘Empire’
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Written to support the extract taken from Jeremy Paxman’s BBC ‘Empire’ documentary series explores the idea that the British Empire wasn’t simply about conquest for conquest’s sake; but was built by a ruthless pursuit of wealth through money, profit and trade:
Search - BBC Empire - Learning Zone - What was the role of money and trade in the British empire | History - Empire
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A worksheet to support the BBC extract from Dan Snow’s The Birth of Empire Ep1 linked below.:
Search - BBC Teach - Class Clips - The Rise of a Trading Colossus
It is an extract of and slightly amended version of the full supporting worksheet already to be found on my site:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12109343
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Archaeologist Neil Oliver visits three of the most important places associated with the Viking invasion and settlement of Anglo Saxon England.
Search - BBC Teach - Class Clips - Viking invaders and settlers | History - The Vikings
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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?
Professor Robert Bartlett details Edward I’s expansionist designs on Wales, and his defeat of the two princes of Gwynedd, Llewellyn and Dafydd, in 1282. Edward’s chain of castles to consolidate control over his new territory are shown on a map. In Scotland, the failure of Edward’s plan to take control by exploiting the Scottish Succession Crisis is explained. His selection of John Balliol as a subordinate Scottish king, and subsequent invasion of Scotland when John showed independence is discussed. We hear about how Scottish resistance to English rule was strong, and discuss the leadership qualities of William Wallace, with images of many of the Scottish borderlands where battles were fought. The strategic use of Stirling Bridge by the Scots to defeat the English is shown in detail. The role of the Plantagenet failure to subdue the Scots in creating Scottish national identity is considered.
This clip is from the BBC series The Plantagenets. Professor Robert Bartlett tells the story of the Plantagenets, England’s longest ruling dynasty. Fifteen kings from this one family dominated the nation for 331 years between the 12th and 15th Centuries, shaping the country’s politics and culture. Their story is one of conflict, brutality and intrigue, but also the birth of Parliament and a system of justice through the Magna Carta. The dynasty ended with decades of Civil War that tore the family apart.
Search - BBC Teach - Class Clips - History KS4 / GCSE: Edward I, the Welsh and the Scots
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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Worksheet to support ‘Vendettas - The Johnson County Cattle War’ - The History Channel.The worksheet explains the causes and course of the conflict between the Open Range Cattle Barons and the Homesteaders in the 1880’s and 1890’s.
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