Themes
History is the story of all that has passed, which makes it a pretty big subject! So we have tried to break it down both by periods of time and by themes. So whether you are an academic, a teacher, a heritage worker, student, someone with a general interest or armchair historian you can probably find an area that most captivates you here. If you love all history or you’re not sure where to start then using a theme as your filter will probably work – give it a go you never know where you might end up.
Politics
- Film: Power and Protest in Ireland – 1714 to 1785
- Ffilm: Grym a Phrotest yng Nghymru – 1714 i 1785
- Film: Power and Protest in Wales – 1714 to 1785
- Film: Power and Protest in Scotland – 1714 to 1785
- Film series: Power and Freedom in Britain and Ireland, 1714–2010
- Film: Party Politics 1714-1785
Women
- Film: Proto-feminism in Britain and Ireland – 1714 to 1785
- Witchcraft, Werewolves and Magic in European History: on-demand short course
- Report on Reclaiming Women’s Place in the History Curriculum
- Historical anniversaries calendar
- Tracing the popular memory of Rosa Parks with Year 9
- How representing women can convey a more complex narrative of the Russian Revolution to Year 9
Health
- Learning from a pandemic
- Polychronicon 172: Health in the Middle Ages
- The development of the Department of Health
- Cunning Plan 163.1: GCSE Thematic study
- WWI and the flu pandemic
- Podcast: The Historical Medicalization of Homosexuality & Transvestism
Power
- Ffilm: Grym a Phrotest yng Nghymru – 1714 i 1785
- Film series: Power and Freedom in Britain and Ireland, 1714–2010
- Films: Lenin – Interpretations
- Film: Key Personalities and Opposition
- Film: Germany 1945-1991: Introduction
- Helping Year 8 to understand historians’ narrative decision-making
Science & Industry
- Climate, environment and history
- What Have Historians Been Arguing About... the consequences of the industrial revolution
- Learning from a pandemic
- Age of Revolutions Resources
- The Victorian Age
- From the history of maths to the history of greatness
Religion
- Witchcraft, Werewolves and Magic in European History: on-demand short course
- Disembarking the religious rollercoaster
- Developing KS3 students’ ability to challenge their history curriculum through an early introduction of significance
- ‘Compressing and rendering’: using biography to teach big stories
- What Have Historians Been Arguing About... the impact of the English Reformation
- Year 7 use oral traditions to make claims about the rise and fall of the Inka empire
International Relations
- Shaping what matters: Year 9 decide why we should care about the Windrush scandal
- Triumphs Show: Embracing scholarship to guide Year 7 on an exploration of the Silk Roads
- Film: Khrushchev - Foreign Policy
- Film: Stalin - World War II
- New approaches to teaching the History of Appeasement in the classroom
- Film: Gorbachev - Domestic Reform
Crime & Punishment
- Witchcraft, Werewolves and Magic in European History: on-demand short course
- The Historian 166: Crime and Punishment
- Reading with other readers in mind
- Past Time Toolkit: new learning resource about Victorian Prisons
- Polychronicon 171: Policing in Nazi Germany
- Polychronicon 157: Reinterpreting police-public relations in modern England
Economics
- Film: Finance in Britain and Ireland: 1714 to 1785
- Film: The Two German Economies
- The British Empire on trial
- Polychronicon 177: The New Deal in American history
- Cunning Plan 175: Using the England's Immigrants database
- The Past, the Present and the Future of the Economic Crisis, through Greek Students’ Accounts of their History
Society
- Film: Power and Protest in Ireland – 1714 to 1785
- Film: Queer British History – 1714 to 1785
- Whose past is it anyway? Telling Russian and Soviet history through diverse Jewish voices
- What Have Historians Been Arguing About... schooling and the British Empire
- Historical anniversaries calendar
- What Have Historians Been Arguing About... Modern British LGBTQ+ history
Culture
- Historical anniversaries calendar
- Triumphs Show: Embracing scholarship to guide Year 7 on an exploration of the Silk Roads
- Lengthening Year 9’s narrative of the American civil rights movement
- Triumphs Show: Recovering the queer history of Weimar Germany in GCSE history
- Year 7 challenge stereotypes about the Mexica
- What Have Historians Been Arguing About... youth culture?