Gaining & Losing an Empire - Leviathan - The Rise of Britain as a World Power: D.Scott - Worksheet to support Chp 7 - The Greatness of Empire -
Eastern Promise
This chapter explores the attraction of India to the early British traders of the EIC
D-Day 75: How was the biggest ever seaborne invasion launched?
A worksheet to support the BBC Teach - D-Day 75 resource
BBC Teach > Secondary Resources > KS3 History / GCSE History > World War Two - The most destructive global conflict in human history
Students will work through a series of data retrieval activities and analytical activities
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A two page resource
A 15 question mulitiple choice quiz is included for use
Was it right to bomb Hiroshima? Worksheet to support the BBC iWonder webpage
In the small hours of a warm summer day, the B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay flew from a US base on Tinian over the Japanese mainland. In the hold was an experimental bomb, codenamed Little Boy. The target: Hiroshima.
Including a *15 MCQ quiz
Search - BBC Teach - Class Clips - WW2: Was it right to bomb Hiroshima?
BBC Teach - Class Clips - History KS3 & KS4/GCSE: The brains behind the Industrial Revolution.
Worksheet to support the BBC documentary extract
Coal and steam are easy factors to identify in the Industrial Revolution but brains were another key factor.
Eminent scientists like Sir Isaac Newton and Robert Boyle had made important discoveries about gravity, and the behaviour of gases.
These discoveries were harnessed and turned into business ideas by men like James Watt and his business partner Matthew Boulton.
Britain’s political system aided these developments.
Compared to most European states, the British Parliament held very little control over the economy, preferring to leave businessmen to run businesses rather than interfering.
At the same time, there was very little censorship or control of ideas and publications, so ideas could be circulated and developed.
In London, scientists met and discussed ideas at the Royal Society.
In the Midlands, the Lunar Society did much the same. Many scientists were interested in knowledge for its own sake, but there were others who were able to turn these ideas into new technologies to make fortunes too.
This short film is from the BBC series, Why the Industrial Revolution Happened Here.
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A one page resource
Including a 15 MCQ Quiz with Q&A
An worksheet for the full BBC Documentary - Why the Industrial Revolution Happened Here? Can be found in my TES Shop
The Birth of Empire - The East India Company Episode 2 Worksheet to support the BBC Documentary presented by Dan Snow. Written to support the Edexcel A level: Gaining and Losing an Empire -1763-1914
By 1800 the East India Company had grown from a tiny band of merchants into a colossal trading empire. But scandal and corruption in the 18th century had led to a curtailment of its powers by the British government. The state now controlled the company’s affairs in India and, throughout the 19th century, would chip away at its remaining powers and trading privileges.
The company was transformed from a trading enterprise into the rulers of India, and governed vast swathes of the subcontinent on behalf of the British Crown. Its territory expanded enormously and an empire was born.
As the company traded opium to a reluctant Chinese Empire, in India a dangerous chasm opened up between the British rulers and the Indian people. Alienated and disaffected, significant numbers of the company’s massive army of Indian soldiers finally revolted and the Company’s handling of the mutiny was its final undoing. In 1858 British India passed into Queen Victoria’s hands and the Raj was born.
This is a copy of this years GCSE revision guide for Paper 1 of the Edexcel Migration course.
This blank booklet contains a question stem overview, Knowledge Checker (PLC) and syllabus overview, mind maps and knowledge organisers and exam questions for the each the parts including the environmental study.
The resource is written in Word
We all think we know what we mean by a witch, but behind the clichés of pointy hats and broomsticks lies a terrifying history that’s been largely forgotten. Four hundred years ago, thousands of ordinary people, the vast majority of them women, were hunted down, tortured and killed in witch hunts across Scotland and England. Lucy Worsley investigates what lay behind these horrifying events.
She begins her investigation in North Berwick, a seaside town not far from Edinburgh, where the witch hunting craze began. The story goes that, in 1590, a coven of witches gathered here to cast a spell to try to kill the King of Scotland, James VI. Using an account from the time called Newes from Scotland and other first-hand sources, Lucy uncovers a web of political intrigue that led to a woman called Agnes Sampson, a faith healer and midwife, being investigated. She was accused of witchcraft and interrogated at Holyrood Castle by King James himself before being tortured and executed.
Agnes was caught in a perfect storm: hardline Protestant reformers wanting to make Scotland devout, a king out to prove himself a righteous leader, and a new ideology which claimed the Devil was actively recruiting women as witches. Under torture, Agnes gave the names of her supposed accomplices, some 59 other innocent people, resulting in the first successful large-scale witch hunt in Scotland. Its brutal success made it the model for trials rolled out across Scotland and England for the next hundred years.
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A 3 page resource
A special episode about William the Conqueror, starring Kevin Eldon. We meet young William, Duke of Normandy, as he quarrels with Harold Godwinson about who should be king of England, before bashing the English and taking the crown at the famous Battle of Hastings in 1066! Meanwhile, across the world, we discover Chinese technology light years ahead of the dunderheaded Normans and Saxons in England, and meet one of the world’s first scientists in Egypt. With, of course, our host Rattus to guide the way!
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A 3 page resource