The Civil War rages. The minie ball is the great equalizer on the battlefield. The formidable Confederate army cannot match the Union’s mastery of technology; railroads, supply lines and the telegram become new weapons in a modern war.
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Horrible Histories takes a look at America and its various presidents, from George Washington to the present day, including President Jackson’s rude parrot, the establishment of the Secret Service, German cowboys, and spy Mary Elizabeth Bowser.
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Trailblazing pioneers set out to conquer the vast continent west of the mountains, but find the land already claimed. Wagon trains meet danger and hardship on the road to unprecedented riches in California’s golden hills.
Robert Cecil is the son of Elizabeth I’s original spymaster. He has been groomed since birth to inherit his father’s network but when he finally steps into his father’s shoes, the Queen’s enemies are stronger than ever and Cecil must also watch his back. The Earl of Essex has established a rival network and is trying to oust Cecil as Elizabeth’s spymaster.
Essex is everything Cecil is not. Cecil is bent-backed and under five foot tall. Essex is an athlete and a war hero who flirts with the Queen. But the two men have known each other since childhood. And now they are locked in a battle that is part court theatrical but which is also a lethal spy war in which people die horrifically violent deaths. The stakes are huge. For the winner, untold power. For the loser a one-way trip to the scaffold.
Cecil is also aware that the sun is setting on the reign of Elizabeth, who is in her sixties. He and Essex are not just battling for control of the Queen, but for control over who will be her successor. For the power to select the next King of England. Essex begins a spy war within the spy war by secretly approaching James VI of Scotland and striking a deal to put him on Elizabeth’s throne when she has passed away. So Cecil must somehow oust Essex from Elizabeth’s court without making an enemy of James who Cecil also wants to inherit the throne.
This is a secret conflict, involving double agents, coded letters, treachery and treason. It is a world that Cecil proves to be an absolute master of. Cecil ruthlessly manoeuvres Essex to the execution block and becomes the man who puts James on the English throne.
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BBC Twentieth Century Battlefields - Ep8 - Iraq - Worksheet to support the BBC Documentary
Written as an enrichment/flipped/independent learning activity the worksheet contains a variety of data collection activities for the video.
Dan and Peter Snow go to Kuwait to tell the story of Operation Desert Storm. Dan describes how revolutionary new technology like stealth bombers and precision-guided bombs would make this a battle unlike anything anyone had seen before. The Iraqis may not have had such cutting-edge technology but, back in 1991, they did have weapons of mass destruction - gas attacks were an ever-present fear amongst the Allied soldiers. Dan experiences how just a simple gas mask would have restricted a soldier’s ability to fight in such extreme conditions and Peter shows how both sides chose their tactics in a war dominated by cutting-edge technology and ruthless political calculation.
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BBC Twentieth Century Battlefields - Ep7 - The Falklands - Worksheet to support the BBC Documentary
In 1982, Argentina triggered the last battle on British territory when it invaded the Falkland Islands. Peter and Dan Snow fly 8,000 miles to the South Atlantic to tell the story of how the British Task Force fought back to regain control.
With his high-tech graphic mapcase, Peter shows the challenges faced by the British, thousands of miles from home. Dan feels the force of the Sea Harrier fighter jets, so crucial to the survival of the British fleet in these icy waters, and goes on a night-fighting training exercise under live fire to experience for himself the tactics used by the British ground troops in their fight to dislodge the Argentinians.
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Supporting worksheet for Peter Ackroyd’s book - Tudors: The History of England from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I
This resource is to support a wider/extended reading programme for either the new GCSE 9-1 specification or A level
Supporting worksheet for Peter Ackroyd’s book - Tudors: The History of England from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I
This resource is to support a wider/extended reading programme for either the new GCSE 9-1 specification
Supporting worksheet for Peter Ackroyd’s book - Tudors: The History of England from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I
This resource is to support a wider/extended reading programme for either the new GCSE 9-1 specification or A level
Supporting worksheet for Peter Ackroyd’s book - Tudors: The History of England from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I
This resource is to support a wider/extended reading programme for either the new GCSE 9-1 specification or A level
Worksheet to support the BBC History File - The First World War -Ep1. - The Approach of War. The sheet consists of evidence collection, questions, map work and extension tasks concerning how Europe descended into war
Frontiers- Worksheet to support J.W. Davidson’s ‘A Little History of the United States’ Chp 20
Written to support the GCSE American West course as an enrichment, flipped independent reading task.
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What was Coming- Worksheet to support J.W. Davidson’s ‘A Little History of the United States’ Chp 22
Written to support the GCSE American West course as an enrichment, flipped independent reading task.
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Kate Humble joins a team of geologists on an awe-inspiring adventure to Ambrym in the Vanuatu island chain.
Here, she undertakes an arduous journey to Marum - a volcano containing one of only five lava lakes on the planet - abseiling right to its heart to discover if another major eruption might be imminent.
Along the way, she discovers how the volcano has shaped the customs and traditions of the islanders and discovers what it really means to live each day on the slopes of an erupting volcano.
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Historian Dr Thomas Asbridge explores the BBC’s archive to reveal how television’s telling of the Crusades has changed over the last 60 years. Using footage from Crusade documentaries shot during the Vietnam era, the Palestinian Crisis, the First Gulf War and the more recent War on Terror, he reveals how our interpretation of this medieval story has been influenced by modern political and social change. Thomas highlights the alternative Arabic perspectives on the Crusades, and asks whether this 1,000-year-old story really does cast its long shadow over the modern world, as so many have claimed.
With contributions from Monty Python star and medievalist Terry Jones, Washington economist JK Galbraith, and historians Simon Sebag Montefiore, Dr Peter Frankopan, Prof Konrad Hirschler and Dr Fozia Bora.
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Using state-of-the-art 3D graphics and the timing of a stand-up comedian, world-famous statistician Professor Hans Rosling presents a spectacular portrait of our rapidly changing world. With seven billion people already on our planet, we often look to the future with dread, but Rosling’s message is surprisingly upbeat. Almost unnoticed, we have actually begun to conquer the problems of rapid population growth and extreme poverty.
Across the world, even in countries like Bangladesh, families of just two children are now the norm - meaning that within a few generations, the population explosion will be over. A smaller proportion of people now live in extreme poverty than ever before in human history and the United Nations has set a target of eradicating it altogether within a few decades. In this as-live studio event, Rosling presents a statistical tour-de-force, including his ‘ignorance survey’, which demonstrates how British university graduates would be outperformed by chimpanzees in a test of knowledge about developing countries.
We live in a world of relentless change. Huge migrations of people to new mega cities, filling soaring skyscrapers and vast slums. Ravenous appetites for fuel and food. Unpredictable climate change. And all this in a world where the population is still growing. Should we be worried? Should we be scared? How to make sense of it all?
A four page resource plus expanded graph activity worksheets
*30 MCQ Question Sheet and Answers for editing
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Kate Humble and Dr. Helen Czerski go on a mission to chronicle the devastating effects of Earth’s movements. By following its voyage around the sun for one complete orbit, 584 million miles, Humble and Czerski discover why the planet tilts and how this results in such weather events as monsoons. They also find that some of the smallest changes in Earth’s movement caused ice ages and that another glacial period could happen in the future.
Ep1- Kate Humble and Dr Helen Czerski follow the Earth’s voyage around the sun for one complete orbit, travelling first from July to the December solstice and showing its effect.
Ep2- Kate Humble and Dr Helen Czerski follow the Earth’s voyage around the sun for one complete orbit, this time travelling from January to the March equinox.
Ep3-Kate Humble is in the Arctic, where spring arrives with a bang. Helen Czerski chases a tornado to show how the earth’s angle of tilt creates the most extreme weather on the planet. An already free resource on my Shop
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British journalist Rageh Omaar travels to the birthplace of Muhammad, documenting the prophet’s life from his beginnings in Mecca to his death in 632. Over the course of three one-hour episodes, Omaar explores the prophet’s personal life as well as key events like the Night Journey to Jerusalem and his departure from Mecca. Filmed on location in Saudi Arabia, Jerusalem, Turkey, Syria, the United States, the United Kingdom and Jordan, the series also addresses Islam’s role in the world today.
Ep1 The Seeker
Ep2 Holy Wars - FREE RESOURCE
Ep3 Holy Peace
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