A scheme of work that contains lessons which are designed to support the teaching of The English Civil War. The resources complement AQA: Britain: Power and the People: c1170 to the Present Day, as well as Edexcel, OCR and WJEC GCSE History and iGCSE History specifications. Please note that due to the number of resources, this is one half of the unit. You can purchase the other half of this unit and other sections separately. Included within this bundle are the following complete lessons: 01 - The World Turned Upside Down 02 - Oliver Cromwell and the Commonwealth 03 - Oliver Cromwell - Hero or Villain 04 - Interpretations of Oliver Cromwell 05 - The Restoration 06 - Challenging Royal Authority The resources that I have created have helped my GCSE History classes achieve and sustain results that far exceed the national average: 2024 P8: +0.49 2023 P8: +0.25 2022 P8: +0.87 and +0.33 2021 P8: +1.42 2020 P8: +0.47 2019 P8: +0.57 My average P8 since 2019 is +0.63 and my GCSE History classes consistently attain the most Grade 9s in any subject and/or class at my current school of over 1300 students. I have worked with the examination boards for over 12 years, and I have utilised feedback from students, fellow professionals, experienced colleagues and used my own professional judgement to ensure that each resource will help you to teach quality history lessons so that each student achieves their personal best. I am proud to be recognised as a ‘Gold’ TES Author, a status awarded to top-rated contributors. My 5-star resources, recommended by TES, have been trusted by educators around the world and have been downloaded nearly a million times to help students achieve success. Copyright Protection ©

Conflict and tension: the First World War, 1894–1918 - The First World War: Stalemate. The resources are suitable for AQA, Edexcel, OCR, WJEC GCSE History and iGCSE History. • The Schlieffen Plan: the reasons for the plan, its failure, including the Battle of Marne and its contribution to the stalemate. • The Western Front: military tactics and technology, including trench warfare; the war of attrition; key battles, including Verdun, the Somme and Passchendaele, the reasons for, the events and significance of these battles. • The wider war: the war on other fronts; Gallipoli and its failure; the events and significance of the war at sea, including Jutland, the U-Boat campaign and convoys. Please note that due to the number of resources, this is one half of the unit. You can purchase the other half of this unit and other sections separately. Included within this bundle are the following complete lessons: 01 - Twentieth Century Warfare 02 - The Great Powers of Europe and the Alliance Systems 03 - The Assassination of Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo 04 - The Outbreak of Hostilities and the Escalation of Conflict in 1914 05 - The Schlieffen Plan; the Reasons for the Plan and its Failure 06 - The Battle of the Marne - ‘Race to the Sea’ and Stalemate 07 - Patriotism and Propaganda 08 - The Accrington Pals 09 - To Fight or Not to Fight - Conscientious Objectors 10 - Trench Warfare during the First World War 11 - The Weapons of Trench Warfare - Military Tactics and Technology 12 - Conditions in the Trenches 13 - ‘They Shall not Grow Old’ - Life in the Trenches 14 - Poetry during the First World War 15 - The Christmas Truce The resources that I have created have helped my GCSE History classes achieve and sustain results that far exceed the national average: 2024 P8: +0.49 2023 P8: +0.25 2022 P8: +0.87 and +0.33 2021 P8: +1.42 2020 P8: +0.47 2019 P8: +0.57 My average P8 since 2019 is +0.63 and my GCSE History classes consistently attain the most Grade 9s in any subject and/or class at my current school of over 1300 students. I have worked with the examination boards for over 12 years, and I have utilised feedback from students, fellow professionals, experienced colleagues and used my own professional judgement to ensure that each resource will help you to teach quality history lessons so that each student achieves their personal best. I am proud to be recognised as a ‘Gold’ TES Author, a status awarded to top-rated contributors. My 5-star resources, recommended by TES, have been trusted by educators around the world and have been downloaded nearly a million times to help students achieve success. Copyright Protection ©

Conflict and tension: the First World War, 1894–1918 - The First World War: Stalemate. The resources are suitable for AQA, Edexcel, OCR, WJEC GCSE History and iGCSE History. • The Schlieffen Plan: the reasons for the plan, its failure, including the Battle of Marne and its contribution to the stalemate. • The Western Front: military tactics and technology, including trench warfare; the war of attrition; key battles, including Verdun, the Somme and Passchendaele, the reasons for, the events and significance of these battles. • The wider war: the war on other fronts; Gallipoli and its failure; the events and significance of the war at sea, including Jutland, the U-Boat campaign and convoys. Please note that due to the number of resources, this is one half of the unit. You can purchase the other half of this unit and other sections separately. Included within this bundle are the following complete lessons: 01 - Verdun 02 - The Somme 03 - Passchendaele 04 - Lions Led by Donkeys - Interpretations of Field Marshal Douglas Haig 05 - The Gallipoli Campaign 06 - The War on Germany’s Eastern Front 07 - War in the Wider World during the First World War 08 - The War at Sea 09 - The Battle of Jutland 10 - The U-Boat Campaign 11 - The War in the Air 12 - The Impact of War on the Home Fronts 13 - The Reasons for Germany’s Defeat in the First World War 14 - The End of the First World War 15 - Remembering World War One The resources that I have created have helped my GCSE History classes achieve and sustain results that far exceed the national average: 2024 P8: +0.49 2023 P8: +0.25 2022 P8: +0.87 and +0.33 2021 P8: +1.42 2020 P8: +0.47 2019 P8: +0.57 My average P8 since 2019 is +0.63 and my GCSE History classes consistently attain the most Grade 9s in any subject and/or class at my current school of over 1300 students. I have worked with the examination boards for over 12 years, and I have utilised feedback from students, fellow professionals, experienced colleagues and used my own professional judgement to ensure that each resource will help you to teach quality history lessons so that each student achieves their personal best. I am proud to be recognised as a ‘Gold’ TES Author, a status awarded to top-rated contributors. My 5-star resources, recommended by TES, have been trusted by educators around the world and have been downloaded nearly a million times to help students achieve success. Copyright Protection ©

America, 1920–1973 - Opportunity and Inequality - American People and the Boom. The resources are suitable for AQA, Edexcel, OCR, WJEC GCSE History and iGCSE History. • The ‘Boom’: benefits, advertising and the consumer society; hire purchase; mass production, including Ford and the motor industry; inequalities of wealth; Republican government policies; stock market boom. • Social and cultural developments: entertainment, including cinema and jazz; the position of women in society, including flappers. • Divided society: organised crime, prohibition and their impact on society; the causes of racial tension, the experiences of immigrants and the impact of immigration; the Ku Klux Klan; the Red Scare and the significance of the Sacco and Vanzetti case. Please note that due to the number of resources, this is one half of the unit. You can purchase the other half of this unit and other sections separately. Included within this bundle are the following complete lessons, revision guide and assessment: 01 - The History of the USA Founding Fathers, Thanksgiving and Pilgrims 02 - The Political and Legal Framework of the United States of America 03 - Democrats and Republicans - The Politics of the United States of America 04 - The Geo-Political, Natural and Social Landscape of the United States of America 05 - The Impact of World War One on the American, British, German, French and Russian Economies 06 - Isolationism - Republican Presidents and Policies Post-World War One 07 - Henry Ford’s Pioneering use of Mass Production within the USA 08 - Stocks, Shares and Credit - American Consumerism during the 1920s 09 - ‘The Boom’ - The Cycle of Prosperity 10 - An Explosion of American Sports 11 - The Birth of the ‘Golden Age’ of Hollywood 12 - 1920s Celebrity Culture 13 - Radio, the ‘Jazz Age’ and the Harlem Renaissance 14 - 19th Amendment, Suffrage and Women’s Rights in Twentieth Century America 15 - The Age of the Flapper 16 - The Transformation of Women in Twentieth Century America 17 - The Roaring 20s 18 - Did Dreams Come True in 1920s Florida 19 - American People and the Boom: Assessment 20 - American People and the Boom: Revision Guide The resources that I have created have helped my GCSE History classes achieve and sustain results that far exceed the national average and outcomes for this specific component consistently exceed the national average according to AQA Enhanced Results Analysis: 2024 P8: +0.49 2023 P8: +0.25 2022 P8: +0.87 and +0.33 2021 P8: +1.42 2020 P8: +0.47 2019 P8: +0.57 My average P8 since 2019 is +0.63 and my GCSE History classes consistently attain the most Grade 9s in any subject and/or class at my current school of over 1300 students. I have worked with the examination boards for over 12 years, and I have utilised feedback from students, fellow professionals, experienced colleagues and used my own professional judgement to ensure that each resource will help you to teach quality history lessons so that each student achieves their personal best. I am proud to be recognised as a ‘Gold’ TES Author, a status awarded to top-rated contributors. My 5-star resources, recommended by TES, have been trusted by educators around the world and have been downloaded nearly a million times to help students achieve success. Copyright Protection ©

America, 1920–1973 - Opportunity and Inequality - Post-War America. The resources are suitable for AQA, Edexcel, OCR, WJEC GCSE History and iGCSE History. • Post-war American society and economy: consumerism and the causes of prosperity; the American Dream; McCarthyism; popular culture, including Rock and Roll and television. • Racial tension and developments in the Civil Rights campaign in the 1950s and 1960s: Segregation laws; Martin Luther King and peaceful protests; Malcolm X and the Black Power Movement; Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1968. • America and the ‘Great Society’: the social policies of Presidents Kennedy and Johnson relating to poverty, education and health; the development and impact of feminist movements in the 1960s and early 1970s, including the fight for equal pay; the National Organisation for Women, Roe v Wade (1973), the Supreme Court ruling on equal rights (1972) and opposition to Equal Rights Amendment. Please note that due to the number of resources, this is one half of the unit. You can purchase the other half of this unit and other sections separately. Included within this bundle are the following complete lessons, revision guide and assessment: 01 - Malcolm X 02 - The Black Power Movement 03 - The Black Panther Party 04 - Race Riots 05 - Mexico Olympic Games, 1968 06 - Martin Luther King Jr 07 - The Success and Limitations of the Civil Rights Movement 08 - The Origins of the Feminist Movement 09 - The Women’s Movement 10 - Roe V. Wade 11 - The Success and Limitations of the Feminist Movement 12 - Post-War America: Assessment 13 - Post-War America: Revision Guide The resources that I have created have helped my GCSE History classes achieve and sustain results that far exceed the national average and outcomes for this specific component consistently exceed the national average according to AQA Enhanced Results Analysis: 2024 P8: +0.49 2023 P8: +0.25 2022 P8: +0.87 and +0.33 2021 P8: +1.42 2020 P8: +0.47 2019 P8: +0.57 My average P8 since 2019 is +0.63 and my GCSE History classes consistently attain the most Grade 9s in any subject and/or class at my current school of over 1300 students. I have worked with the examination boards for over 12 years, and I have utilised feedback from students, fellow professionals, experienced colleagues and used my own professional judgement to ensure that each resource will help you to teach quality history lessons so that each student achieves their personal best. I am proud to be recognised as a ‘Gold’ TES Author, a status awarded to top-rated contributors. My 5-star resources, recommended by TES, have been trusted by educators around the world and have been downloaded nearly a million times to help students achieve success. Copyright Protection ©

A scheme of work that contains lessons which are designed to support the teaching of The Civil Rights Movement. The resources complement AQA, Edexcel, OCR and WJEC GCSE History and iGCSE History. Please note that due to the number of resources, this is one half of the unit. You can purchase the other half of this unit and other sections separately. Included within this bundle are the following complete lessons: 01 - Civil Rights Act, 1964 02 - Selma to Montgomery, 1965 03 - Malcolm X 04 - The Black Power Movement 05 - The Black Panther Party 06 - Race Riots 07 - Mexico Olympic Games, 1968 08 - Martin Luther King Jr 09 - The Success and Limitations of the Civil Rights Movement The resources that I have created have helped my GCSE History classes achieve and sustain results that far exceed the national average: 2024 P8: +0.49 2023 P8: +0.25 2022 P8: +0.87 and +0.33 2021 P8: +1.42 2020 P8: +0.47 2019 P8: +0.57 My average P8 since 2019 is +0.63 and my GCSE History classes consistently attain the most Grade 9s in any subject and/or class at my current school of over 1300 students. I have worked with the examination boards for over 12 years, and I have utilised feedback from students, fellow professionals, experienced colleagues and used my own professional judgement to ensure that each resource will help you to teach quality history lessons so that each student achieves their personal best. I am proud to be recognised as a ‘Gold’ TES Author, a status awarded to top-rated contributors. My 5-star resources, recommended by TES, have been trusted by educators around the world and have been downloaded nearly a million times to help students achieve success. Copyright Protection ©

Norman England, c1066–c1100 - The Normans: Conquest and Control. The resources are suitable for AQA, Edexcel, OCR, WJEC GCSE History and iGCSE History. • Causes of Norman Conquest, including the death of Edward the Confessor, the claimants and claims. • Military aspects: Battle of Stamford Bridge; Battle of Hastings; Anglo-Saxon and Norman tactics; military innovations, including cavalry and castles. • Establishing and maintaining control: the Harrying of the North; revolts, 1067–1075; King William’s leadership and government; William II and his inheritance. Please note that due to the number of resources, this is one half of the unit. You can purchase the other half of this unit and other sections separately. Included within this bundle are the following complete lessons, revision guide and assessment: 01 - William I, King of England and the Normans - Securing Power 02 - The Feudal System 03 - The Development of Norman Castles 04 - The Importance of Norman Castles 05 - Pevensey Castle 06 - Revolts, 1067-1075 07 - The Harrying of the North 08 - Hereward the Wake 09 - The Domesday Book 10 - The Death of William I 11 - Significance of the Normans 12 - The Normans: Conquest and Control: Assessment 13 - The Normans: Conquest and Control: Revision Guide The resources that I have created have helped my GCSE History classes achieve and sustain results that far exceed the national average: 2024 P8: +0.49 2023 P8: +0.25 2022 P8: +0.87 and +0.33 2021 P8: +1.42 2020 P8: +0.47 2019 P8: +0.57 My average P8 since 2019 is +0.63 and my GCSE History classes consistently attain the most Grade 9s in any subject and/or class at my current school of over 1300 students. I have worked with the examination boards for over 12 years, and I have utilised feedback from students, fellow professionals, experienced colleagues and used my own professional judgement to ensure that each resource will help you to teach quality history lessons so that each student achieves their personal best. I am proud to be recognised as a ‘Gold’ TES Author, a status awarded to top-rated contributors. My 5-star resources, recommended by TES, have been trusted by educators around the world and have been downloaded nearly a million times to help students achieve success. Copyright Protection ©

Elizabethan England, c1568–c1603 - Elizabeth’s Court and Parliament. The resources are suitable for AQA, Edexcel, OCR, WJEC GCSE History and iGCSE History. • Elizabeth I and her court: background and character of Elizabeth I; court life, including patronage; key ministers. • The difficulties of a female ruler: relations with Parliament; the problem of marriage and the succession; the strength of Elizabeth’s authority at the end of her reign, including Essex’s rebellion in 1601. Please note that due to the number of resources, this is one half of the unit. You can purchase the other half of this unit and other sections separately. Included within this bundle are the following complete lessons, revision guide and assessment: 01 - Welcome to History - The Origins of the Tudors 02 - The Tudors within Early Modern Europe 03 - Elizabeth I’s Tumultuous Relationship with her Parents 04 - Elizabeth I’s Sibling Rivalry 05 - Elizabeth I’s Personality and Character 06 - Elizabeth I’s Accession to the Throne 07 - Challenges and Opposition to the Rule of Elizabeth I 08 - The Elizabethan ‘Great Chain of Being’ 09 - Elizabeth’s Court and Parliament: Assessment 10 - Elizabeth’s Court and Parliament: Revision Guide The resources that I have created have helped my GCSE History classes achieve and sustain results that far exceed the national average and outcomes for this specific component consistently exceed the national average according to AQA Enhanced Results Analysis: 2024 P8: +0.49 2023 P8: +0.25 2022 P8: +0.87 and +0.33 2021 P8: +1.42 2020 P8: +0.47 2019 P8: +0.57 My average P8 since 2019 is +0.63 and my GCSE History classes consistently attain the most Grade 9s in any subject and/or class at my current school of over 1300 students. I have worked with the examination boards for over 12 years, and I have utilised feedback from students, fellow professionals, experienced colleagues and used my own professional judgement to ensure that each resource will help you to teach quality history lessons so that each student achieves their personal best. I am proud to be recognised as a ‘Gold’ TES Author, a status awarded to top-rated contributors. My 5-star resources, recommended by TES, have been trusted by educators around the world and have been downloaded nearly a million times to help students achieve success. Copyright Protection ©