An extensive revision guide crated to support students through the new Edexcel 9-1 History GCSE (Superpower relations). This revision guide offers condensed notes, quick quizzes, exam questions and model answers.

A lesson aimed at the new Edexcel 9-1 Elizabeth course (can be adapted for AQA), that looks at the events, causes and significance of the Ridolfi, Throckmorton and Babington plots. It includes a worksheet that is ideal for moving around the classroom as a carousel for students to acquire their knowledge. Also includes an exam question for students to consolidate their knowledge.

A powerpoint that goes through key skills like chronology, timelines, matching dates to centuries and source analysis skills. Ideal for a year 7 introduction lesson

A lesson aimed at the new Edexcel GCSE Elizabeth I course, looking at the situation on Elizabeth's succession and how the government in structured. Ideal as an introduction lesson to the course. Includes resources.

A PowerPoint looking at the problems Elizabeth I faced on her accession from home to abroad. Offers students the opportunity to research and find links between the factors, before prioritizing them. Also includes a homework 12 mark exam question

An overview of how entertainment has changed over time, getting students to focus on the key concepts of change and continuity.

Ideal for students studying the Tudor period, this lesson looks at whether or not Tudor entertainment really was as bloody as historians have made out.

Ideal for students looking at the Tudor period, an insight into the importance of the theatre in Tudor times.

A lesson aimed at KS3 students that looks at how the Victorians enjoyed themselves at the seaside, includes a worksheet to help students, and a variety of activities

A lesson aimed at KS3 students looking at different types of entertainment for rich and poor people, includes a series of activities and worksheet.

A KS3/KS4 lesson looking at reasons why people go to war, different types of war, and then is war justified. Each activity feature different pathways, and challenges and super challenges. Ideal for an introduction to a warfare unit or for a PHSE/RE lesson

Ideal for KS3 students looking at the Victorian era and the different types of entertainment they had. Includes a plenary of quick on the draw, which encourages team work and literacy skills.

A resource that is ideal for the start of the Edexcel unit 2 course on Early Elizabethan England. Includes a table worksheet and a homework activity.

A lesson ideal for the new 9-1 Edexcel GCSE (adaptable to other exam boards) that looks at the period of detente, and steps that were taken to improve relations between East and West. Differentiated activities throughout; challenge and super challenge activities included.

Two lessons ideal for the new Edexcel GCSE Elizabeth course. This is a bundle of two lessons - one focusing on the reasons why Mary, Queen of Scots was executed, and the other lesson focusing upon the role of Sir Francis Walsingham.

A double lesson ideal for the new Edexcel 9-1 Elizabeth GCSE course, looking at the causes and significance of the Northern Earls Revolt. Requires the blue Edexcel GCSE (9-1) early Elizabethan England textbook (p.41-45). Includes a worksheet on the key players, and an exam question to consolidate understanding.