World 1745-1901

Trade and the morality of some trade such as slavery are brought into question during this period. Included here are articles providing information about the world structures and the challenges they experienced in this period. Key individuals are explored such as Thomas Payne, and how their reach was British, European and Global. In other articles the encounters with China that are taking place in the 19th century are discussed.

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  • How did changing conceptions of place lead to conflict in the American West? Reflecting on revision methods for GCSE

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    Mary Woolley decided to make four revision sheets for her lower-band Year 11 set. Each was to help them view their American West study through a different lens. She was rather uncertain, however (and so were the pupils) about her fourth sheet on places. Her reflections on the revision sheet...

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  • Polychronicon 113: slavery in 20th-century America

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    Polychronicon was a fourteenth-century chronicle that brought together much of the knowledge of its own age. Our Polychronicon in Teaching History is a regular feature helping school history teachers to update their subject knowledge, with special emphasis on recent historiography and changing interpretation. This edition of 'Polychronicon' is on 'Interpreting...

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  • Cunning Plan 97: A-Level: International Relations 1890-1914

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    'No war is inevitable until it starts.' Good quote. Not mine, but A.J.P. Taylor's. The outbreak of the First World War is a good way to test it! Did the statesmen of the day know the First World War was coming? Put another way, why was there no general European...

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