Periods
The content of the history curriculum can be arranged both by period and theme. In this section, we have arranged the content by chronological period. These periods are arranged according to the same date ranges given in the National Curriculum for ease of navigation by teachers who may be looking for specific content related to the taught curriculum. While the date ranges given in the National Curriculum are the subject of debate, they form a workable search tool.
Ancient
- Recorded webinar series: From Cyrus to Cleopatra: The ancient history adventure
- Sudan Holy Mountain: Jebel Barkal and its Temples
- Recorded webinar: Maya ruler King Pakal II of Palenque
- History Abridged: Salt mines in Eastern Europe
- Building local history into the curriculum
- Film: Attic Inscriptions
Early Medieval
- Unpacking the enquiry puzzle
- Film: Building Anglo-Saxon England
- Film: Meet the author: Marc Morris on The Anglo-Saxons
- How history learners can ‘dig school’ under lockdown
- Cunning Plan 178: How far did Anglo-Saxon England survive the Norman Conquest?
- Polychronicon 172: Health in the Middle Ages
1066-1509
- Webinar series: Medieval political ideas and activity in global context
- Maximising the power of storytelling in the history classroom
- Broadening Year 7’s British history horizons with Welsh medieval sources
- Exploring the relationship between historical significance and historical interpretation
- Using the present to construct a meaningful picture of the medieval past
- Recorded webinar: The People of 1381
1509-1745
- Film series: Power and Freedom in Britain and Ireland, 1714–2010
- Witchcraft, Werewolves and Magic in European History: on-demand short course
- Virtual Branch Recording: The Fall of the English Republic
- Virtual Branch Recording: The cultural world of Elizabethan England
- What was Witchcraft in the Early Sixteenth Century?
- Disembarking the religious rollercoaster
1745-1901
- Film: Power and Protest in Ireland – 1714 to 1785
- Film: Proto-feminism in Britain and Ireland – 1714 to 1785
- Film: Queer British History – 1714 to 1785
- Film: Power and Protest in Scotland – 1714 to 1785
- Ffilm: Grym a Phrotest yng Nghymru – 1714 i 1785
- Film: Power and Protest in Wales – 1714 to 1785
1901-present
- Learning from a pandemic
- Exploring and Teaching Twentieth-Century History
- Teaching 20th-Century History Resources
- Polychronicon 167: The strange career of Richard Nixon
- Inverting the telescope: investigating sources from a different perspective
- Triumphs Show 167: Keeping the 1960s complicated