The Education Service provides free online resources and taught sessions, supporting the National Curriculum for history from key stage 1 up to A-level. Visit our website to access the full range of our resources, from Domesday to Britain in the 1960s, and find out about more about our schools programme, including new professional development opportunities for teachers.
The Education Service provides free online resources and taught sessions, supporting the National Curriculum for history from key stage 1 up to A-level. Visit our website to access the full range of our resources, from Domesday to Britain in the 1960s, and find out about more about our schools programme, including new professional development opportunities for teachers.
The start of mass politics in Britain?
The document collection is designed to allow students and teachers to develop their own questions and lines of historical enquiry on Protest and Democracy from 1816 to 1818. Documents are titled and grouped together according to theme and therefore not displayed in strict chronological order. Some of the themes include: the causes of distress, Blanketeers, radical meetings.
These documents can be used to support any of the exam board specifications covering the political, social and cultural aspects of nineteenth century British history, for example:
AQA History A level
Breadth study: The impact of Industrialisation: Government and a changing society, 1812-1832
Edexcel History A level
Paper 1: Breadth study with interpretations 1D: Britain c1785-c1870 democracy, protest and reform
Paper 3: Aspects in depth: Protest, agitation and parliamentary reform in Britain, c1780-1928: unit: Radical reformers c1790-1819 Mass protest and Agitation
OCR History A level
Unit Y110: From Pitt to Peel 1783-1853
British Period Study: British Government in the Age of Revolution 1783-1832
Free printable teaching resource pack including four case studies on Whitechapel in 1880 using original historical documents for a document led enquiry/investigation.
Whitechapel in the late 1800s was an area of overpopulation, industry and crime. With such wide systemic issues it can be easy to lose sight of the experiences of the individuals who lived in the area. This lesson explores the historic environment through the interconnected lives of four individuals who lived in the area during the 1880s. What can the stories of two West Indian boxers, the daughter of an Irish carpet maker and a child born in Whitechapel itself reveal about the challenges and benefits of living around Commercial Street in the Victorian era?
Suitable for Edexcel GCSE History:
Whitechapel, c1870-c1900: crime, policing and the inner city
Migrants in Britain, c800–present
Crime and punishment in Britain, c1000–present
AQA GCSE History:
AC Britain: Migration, empires and the people: c790 to the present day