A one stop for all modern history teachers, big on ambition for great lessons and short on time. Find learning resources, lesson starters, factfiles, entire modules and more.
A one stop for all modern history teachers, big on ambition for great lessons and short on time. Find learning resources, lesson starters, factfiles, entire modules and more.
This is a detailed resource for GCSE and A level focusing on the initial policies towards the Jews across Germany 1933-35.
It explores the role of the SA in boycotting Jewish shops
It examines what is known of Hitler’s intentions and motivations
It examines the motivations for the Nuremberg Laws in 1935
These useful and accessible study notes give students a clear and straightforward understanding of Grant’s enforcement acts against the KKK.
It explains:
The 1870 Enforcement Act
The two 1871 Enforcement Acts
The KKK
Whitecapping
This super handy all in one mega bundle contains 22 worksheets (including a module overview and a study of the historiography of the topic). Here are the topics covered:
Causes of World War One Introduction
World War One Historiography
Bismarck
The Impact of German Unification
British Foreign Policy 1871-1904
Sino Japanese War
July Crisis
The Bosnian Crisis 1908
Arms Races
Imperial Tensions
Bismarck’s Diplomacy
The Congress of Berlin
The Entente Cordiale
The Morocco Crises
The British Empire in the 19th Century
The end of the Bismarckian System
The Balkans
The Italo Turkish and Balkan Wars
Japan and Britain
Japan and America
Japan and World War One
This handy, easy to use and accessible handout is a useful exploration of the Fifteenth Amendment for students of US civil rights, reconstruction and slavery. It contains
The political circumstances of the amendment.
Its limitations and shortcomings
The Colfax Massacre that followed black voter registration in the south
This is a super handy and accessible overview of American society in 1945.
* It explains the impact of the war on America and the change in living standards that Americans experienced in its aftermath.
* Ideal for GCSE or A Level
This detailed and accessible resource explains in depth Mussolini’s war in Abyssinia.
It explains the causes and the consequences of the war for Italy, France, Britain and Abyssinia.
These notes are ideal for A level students exploring the causes of the Second World War.
This detailed but accessible resource focuses on the following key issues:
Mussolini and the Locarno Pact and his relations with Britain and France.
Mussolini’s ambitions
The Rome Berlin Axis
Mussolini’s policy towards Abyssinia and Spain
This super accessible guide to crime and punishment after 1066 features:
How land was owned and how poachers and trespassers were punished.
Why ordinary people broke the law and rebelled against their rulers.
How the Normans and Plantagenets controlled the land and people.
Detailed and accessible study notes making the complexities of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America straight forward. These study notes explain:
The difficulties passing the amendment
The passing of the earlier Civil Rights Act 1866
The attempt by former slave owning states to negate the three fifths rule.
This resource is an indispensable guide for students to the causes and events of the Spanish American War and America’s annexation of the Panama Canal.
It includes lesson notes on:
The causes of the Spanish American War
The war in Cuba and the Philippines
The acquisition of the Panama Canal
This resource is a brief guide to the causes of the Spanish Civil War. It features key information on:
Foreign involvement from Nazi Germany and Italy
Foreign volunteers in the International Brigades
Anglo French neutrality.
Accessible and easy to use study notes on the Bosnian Crisis 1908, ideal for A level.
This resource explains:
The importance of Bosnia to Austria
The impact of declining Ottoman power
The consequences of Austria’s actions
These accessible and easy to understand notes explain:
The life of Booker T Washington
The philosophy of self help and racial uplift
The differing views of Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois
Washington’s close relationship with wealthy white philanthropists
This resource explains how crime and punishment changed in the 18th and 19th Centuries, along with the development of towns and cities. It focuses on:
The development of prisons
The practice of transportation to Australia
Victorian views on the poor and the ‘criminal classes’
This is a clear, concise and super accessible guide to the 13th Amendment of the Constitution, abolishing slavery. It explains to students:
*The problems with the Constitution of 1788
*The reasons for the passing of the amendment
*The methods used by southern states to subvert the amendment
*The use of prison labour as a result of the amendment’s wording
The Russian Revolution can be one of the hardest subjects at school or college to study, complex ideologies and arguments need to be understood before the actual events of the revolution start to make any sense at all. In this new ten point guide I've condensed everything I have taught on Russia over the past decade into an easy to understand guide, along with two bonus essays at the end. This title is perfect for students who want to understand the revolution and its aftermath or learners who want to master the topic and included in the ebook are in depth answers to the following questions:
* What is communism?
* Who was Lenin?
* What problems did the Tsar face?
* Why did the February Revolution happen?
* Why did the October Revolution happen?
* Why was there a civil war in Russia?
* What was the Red Terror?
* What happened to Russia's churches?
* What was the NEP?
* Why did Stalin succeed Lenin?
This accessible and easy to use study guide explains the causes and consequences of the Morocco Crises and the impact of these on France, Britain and Germany.
This resource is ideal for A level students learning about the causes of the First World War and suitable for all examining boards.
This detailed and accessible resource for GCSE and A level on the opening phase of World War Two. It provides an overview of:
The Invasion of Poland
The Fall of France
The Battle of the Atlantic
The Battle of Britain
This resource focuses on how the dramatic increase in poverty and vagrancy in the 16th Century was criminalised and punished. If is an easy to use and accessible guide, focusing on:
How poverty was treated in Tudor society.
How crime was addressed by the Tudors.
The results of uprisings against Tudor monarchs.
Three study guides for lesson or homework on the complexities of Lincoln’s approach to emancipation and the challenges of reconstruction after his death. Study notes for three complete lessons covering:
Lincoln and Slavery
Emancipation proclamation
Reconstruction: Part One (1865-68)