Webinar series: Creating curriculum pathways through primary history at Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2

Session 3: Empire

An overview will be given of the development of empires over time taking in those that developed in ancient civilisations such as Egypt, colonisation by Greek city states and the empire building of Alexander the Great and then the Romans. The webinar will compare Viking colonisation and conquest with that of earlier empires and include comparisons with empires featured in curricular options such as the Islamic Abbasid Caliphate and Benin. Links will be made to the optional study of aspects of British Imperial history beyond 1066 such as commemoration of Commonwealth forces in the world wars and the Battle of Britain. Reference will be made to the possible study of significant individuals at Key Stage 1 such as Mary Seacole, a British-Jamaican nurse who travelled from the then British colony of Jamaica to help British troops fighting in the Crimean War in the middle of the 19th century.

Release date: Friday 1 September 2023
Expiry date: Wednesday 31 August 2024

How to book

You can purchase and access the webinar on this page (please note you will need to be logged in to do this). Once you have purchased the resource, the recording will be available to view at the bottom of this page from 1 September 2023 until 31 August 2024.

All Historical Association webinars are subject to the HA CPD terms and conditions.