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History Curriculum Resources

History Curriculum Resources

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Year 7 Learning Resources

Doing

Watching and Listening

Medieval life https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSCQ3Qn1Q-M 

Medieval Church 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9N3Jl5C5ZQ 

The Normans 

https://www.thecollector.com/how-did-the-normans-change-england/ 

Kings and Queens of Britain 

https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/KingsQueensofBritain/ 

The Black Death 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zdkssk7#zxxjjsg 

Medieval Islamic Civilisations 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zw8nhcw#zbwx2v4 

Reading

General

Subscribe to the BBC History magazine
https://www.historyextra.com/bbc-history-magazine/

Read the Horrible Histories series.
http://horrible-histories.co.uk/

The Time Traveller’s Guide to… series by Ian Mortimer for a first-hand account of what life in Britain was like throughout the ages.
https://www.goodreads.com/series/173290-time-traveller-s-guides

A Really Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson  

https://pocklingtonhistory.com/history/earlyhistory/index.php 

Explore the local history of Pocklington 

 https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/zk26n39 

Bitesize Revision  

 https://spartacus-educational.com/Medieval.htm 

Spartacus history website 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sK4JX0co8I 

BBC videos- Norman Conquest 

 https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/vikings 

BBC- Vikings 

The Romans and Medieval England

  • Time Riders.  Time-travelling adventures set in Ancient Rome and the Middle Ages. By Alex Scarrow  
  • Roman Invasion. A novel set in the time of Roman Britain. By Jim Eldridge  
  • Medieval Europe for Kids: A Captivating Guide to the Middle Ages in European History By Captivating History 
  • Anglo Saxons for Kids: A Captivating Guide to the People of Early Medieval England and Their Battles Against the Vikings. By Captivating History 
  • Arthur High King of Britain by Michael Morpurgo or any other history based stories by the same author 
  • Norse Myths, Tales of Odin, Thor and Loki, Kevin Crossley-Holland & illustrated by Jeffrey Alan Love
  • Medieval England The Secret Diary of John Drawbridge: Medieval Knight in Training by Philip Ardagh
  • The Normans – Joanna Courtney: The Conqueror’s Queen. The story of 1066 from the perspective of William’s wife 
  • Normans, Stormin’ Normans, Terry Deary & illustrated by Martin Brown
  • 1066 (I was There…) by Jim Eldridge
  • Medieval England Outlaw: the story of Robin Hood by Michael Morpurgo
  • The Black Death, All Fall Down, A Story of Survival, Sally Nicholls
Year 8 Learning Resources

Doing 

  • Visit various Tudor sites in York- Kings Manor, Barley Hall, the Shambles 
  • Work the walls in York or Helmsley Castle for some Civil War History 
  • Find Charles’ crest above the door of Kings Manor in York 
  • Visit the battlefield of Marston Moor
  • Visit the York Railway Museum 
  • Visit Leeds Armouries 
  • Visit the International Slavery Museum Liverpool  
  • Visit the Powerful Women- hidden histories exhibition in the Castle Museum York 
  • Visit the Wilberforce House Museum in Hull  

Watching and Listening

https://pocklingtonhistory.com/history/18thcentury/index.php Explore the local history of Pocklington 

https://spartacus-educational.com/Tudors.htm 

 The Tudors 

https://spartacus-educational.com/STUcivilwar.htm 

The English Civil War  

 https://www.johndclare.net/KS3/2-5-3.htm 

The English Civil War 

York and industrialisation https://www.historyofyork.org.uk/themes/industrialisation 

British Empire https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z7kvf82 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7E9Tm1X7vw&list=PLcvEcrsF_9zLFhetle-QrjhRvL7vjcJo8 

 The Industrial Revolution https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpQOGEVpfvg&list=PLcvEcrsF_9zKqyQOhbNL-eB9e7EkX4Yef

Women’s Suffrage 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zh6nsk7#zspyvwx 

Reading

The Tudors and the Civil War

  • VIII by H.M Castor  
  • Black Tudors by Miranda Kaufmann   
  • Treason by Berlie Doherty 
  • Diver’s Daughter, A Tudor Story By Patrice Lawrence 
  • Fly by Night By Frances Hardinge 
  • English Civil War – A Skinful of Shadows, Frances Hardinge 
  • The Plague – Ring of Roses – Mary Hooper 
  • The Restoration: No shame, No Fear- by Ann Turnbull 
  • Witch Child- by Celia Rees 
  • English Civil War – A Skinful of Shadows, Frances Hardinge 
  • The Restoration: No shame, No Fear- by Ann Turnbull 
  • Witch Child- by Celia Rees 

Industrial Revolution and Slavery

  • Industrial Revolution –Hetty Feather,  Jacqueline Wilson 
  • History of Slavery- Freedom 1783- Catherine Johnson 
  • History of Slavery – Coram Boy,  Jamila Gavin 
  • Black & British by David Olusoga 
  • The things a bright girl can do. By Sally Nicholls

 

Year 9 Learning Resources

Doing 

  • Visit the war memorial in Pocklington 
  • The Castle Museum in York 
  • Visit the Imperial War Museum in Manchester 
  • Visit Eden Camp near Pickering 
  • Visit Leeds Armouries 
  • Visit the York Army Museum 

Watching and Listening

https://pocklingtonhistory.com/history/20thcentury/pocklingtoninww1/zeppelin/index.php 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjqdgGb739w 

BBC WW1 Uncut series https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/articles/zhv747h 

Stalin  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ8p_MAkDq4 

Explore the local history of Pocklington during WW2  https://pocklingtonhistory.com/history/20thcentury/pocklingtoninww2/earlydaysinpocklington/index.php 

WW2 – https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/ 

Civil Rights – https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zq9hp4j 

Reading

  • Private Peaceful By Michael Morpurgo 
  • War Horse By Michael Morpurgo 
  • War Girls by Teresa Breslin et al. 
  • The World’s War: Forgotten Soldiers of Empire by David Olusoga 
  • Maus By Art Spiegelman 
  • The Book Thief By Marcus Zusak 
  • Salt to the Sea By Ruta Sepetys 
  • Now or never: A Dunkirk Story. By Bali Rai 
  • The Lions of Little Rock By Kristin Levine 
KS4 Resources

Doing

  • Visit the Thackray Museum of Medicine in Leeds
  • Visit St Mary’s Abbey in York
  • Visit the Cold War bunker in York
  • Visit Burton Agnes Hall and Burton Constable Hall
  • Visit Hardwick Hall

Watching and Listening

Medicine

Cold War

Elizabeth

Reading

Elizabeth I

  • The Time Traveller’s Guide to Elizabethan England by Ian Mortimer
  • Lady Elizabeth by Alison Weir
  • Elizabeth by David Starkey

The Cold War

  • Potsdam By Michael Neiberg
  • The Cold War: A new history By John Lewis Gaddis
  • One Minute to Midnight By Michael Dobbs
  • Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall by Anna Funder

Germany

  • Anne Frank- The diary of a young girl. By Anne Frank
  • The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
  • Travellers in the Third Reich. The rise of Fascism through the eyes of everyday people by Julia Boyd
  • The Weimar Republic by Peukert

Medicine

  • Blood and Guts: A Short History of Medicine (Roy Porter)
  • The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth and Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine (Thomas Morris)
  • The Time Traveller’s Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century.
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