BBC Teach - Abolitionism and why it was opposed - Britain’s Forgotten Slave Owners
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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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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
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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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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.
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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
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The cultural changes brought to Britain by the Normans based upon Episode 2 of Robert Bartlet’s BBC Documentary series
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Professor Robert Bartlett describes the cultural changes that the Normans brought to Britain.
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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.
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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.
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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 / 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?
Worksheet to support the BBC Teach Did the suffragettes win women the vote? interactive
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: The Atomic bomb. Worksheet to support the BBC website
Worksheet to support the excerpt from Andrew Marrs’ History of The World
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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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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The story of the Palatines who migrated to Britain in the 1700s
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BBC Teach > Secondary Resources > KS3 / GCSE History > Migration
Historian David Olusoga tells the story of the Palatines, one of a number of groups of European migrants who came to Britain in the 18th century to escape poverty, religious persecution and seek a better life.
In 1709, in an area in Blackheath in south London, 13,000 German migrants called the Palatines formed what became regarded as Britain’s first refugee camp.
They spoke different languages and belonged to different churches and became a curiosity for thousands of Londoners of the period.
Most hoped to travel on to Carolina in the New World, after promises of work and prosperity, but in the end only a few made the trip to North America, and many returned to Germany.
Olusoga meets Dr. Brodie Waddell from Birkbeck at the University of London, who is an expert on this period.
This short film is from the BBC series, Migration.
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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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Search - BBC teach - Class Clips - History KS3 / GCSE: Jewish migration to Manchester in the late 1800s
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In this short film for secondary schools historian David Olusoga visits Manchester which, along with the other industrial manufacturing towns surrounding it, acted as a magnet for waves of economic migrants from all over the world.
In the late 1800’s and early 1900’s, 30,000 Jewish migrants from Russia and Eastern Europe settled in Manchester.
David Olusoga meets Janice Haber and her family, the descendents of Jewish migrants, and talks to historian Ruth Percy who describes how Conservative politicians and right wing newspapers of the time exploited economic concerns associated with the new migrants, stoking up racist xenophobia against migrants like the Jews, which would become familiar throughout the 1900’s.
The arrival of the Jews and other migrants led to changes in the law, and to the emergence of modern immigration legislation – laws that persist to this day.
This short film is from the BBC series, Migration.
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Written support the BBC Teach Olusoga documentary extract -How British migrants made fortunes working for the East India Company?
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European powers started trading with India from the early 1500’s.
At first, all British trade was dominated by the London based East India Company, which was granted the monopoly on trade with India in 1600.
Over the following 200 years the company became increasingly prominent in the European trading routes with India.
Historian David Olusoga, meets Professor Margot Finn, an expert on the period, and profiles the Russell family who purchased Swallowfield House near Reading, which is today a block of luxury flats.
The house symbolises how these so called Nabobs, British migrants in the employ of the East India Company, returned from India as extremely wealthy men, which allowed them to establish themselves at the higher end of the British class system.
This short film is from the BBC series, Migration.
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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.
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