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Why was the American West so fiercely contested in the years 1835-1895? An overview
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Is History Review right about the ‘lurching’ US government policy towards Plains Indians?
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Crime and Punishment 1000AD to today: An overview
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Was Saxon crime prevention primitive or sophisticated?
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The Essential Guide to the HRC Key Stage 3 Curriculum
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Norman Conquest – 6 lesson knowledge rich enquiry SOW free download.
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Who should be the next King?
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For people living at the time, was the Norman Conquest a change for the better?
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Norman Conquest knowledge organiser – free download
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Did the historian Marc Morris get it right about the significance of the Norman Conquest?
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Norman Conquest substantive knowledge test
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Is Simon Schama correct about the Battle of Hastings?
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Was the medieval period really an ‘Age of Faith’? An overview
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How much can Doom paintings reveal about Medieval attitudes to the afterlife?
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Why on earth would anyone go on a medieval pilgrimage?
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Medieval Beliefs Knowledge Organiser
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Why do historians disagree about the Crusades? 1
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Medieval Beliefs Substantive Knowledge Test
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Medieval Murder: Changing crime prevention in the late Middle Ages
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Who was the best Medieval Monarch? An overview
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Why was Edward III such a successful medieval monarch?
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Medieval Power Knowledge Organiser
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Barons, knights and empresses: Why was the monarchs’ authority challenged in the medieval period?
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Medieval Power Substantive Knowledge Test
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Revealing who was the real Richard the Lionheart
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Was King John really nasty, selfish and terrible?
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Medieval Ordinary Lives – 6 enquiry free unit overview
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What were peasants’ lives really like?
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Medieval Ordinary Life Knowledge Organiser
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The mystery of the Charterhouse Square skeletons
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Why should we bother learning about the Black Death?
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Peasants Revolt decision maker: what would you have done?
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Medieval Ordinary Lives Substantive Knowledge Test
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Is Wat Tyler significant enough to have a park named after him?
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Inside the mind of Henry VIII Decision-maker
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Should the National Portrait Gallery sell Henry VIII cushions?
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Religion and Beliefs in the Early Modern Period
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Early Modern Beliefs Knowledge Organiser
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How far were ordinary people really impacted by the Reformation?
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Early Modern Beliefs Substantive Knowledge Test
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Cultural Encounters in the Early Modern Period
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Early Modern Cultural Encounters Knowledge Organiser
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Early Modern Cultural Encounters Substantive Knowledge Test
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ELIZABETHANS 1558-88 – Scheme of Work
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Early Elizabethan England for Edexcel 9-1 GCSE
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How was Elizabeth’s character and reign shaped by events in her early life?
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What problems did Elizabeth face at the beginning of her reign?
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How did Elizabeth maintain her authority?
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What kind of Church did Elizabeth choose in 1559?
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How serious a challenge did Elizabeth face from the Puritans?
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How big a threat was Mary Queen of Scots to Elizabeth in 1568?
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What made the Northern Earls Revolt in 1569?
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Why was there an increase in poverty and vagabondage in Elizabethan England?
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Was Elizabethan society really under threat from a ‘rascally rabbalage’ of vagabonds?
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Was the Elizabethan period a ‘golden age’ of culture for Elizabethans?
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Why did so many Elizabethan sailors risk long and dangerous voyages overseas?
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Why did the Virginia colonies fail?
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Mystery enquiry: Why were ‘they’ punished so harshly?
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French Revolution – 10 enquiry package
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British Empire 1700-1900 – Six lesson saver package
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Blood on Prime Minister William Gladstone’s Statue
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Did anyone really bother to enforce the law properly 1700-1900?
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Design a tea cosy dedicated to our national drink
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The connection between tea, coffee, clothes and an antique plate
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Could you prosecute the captain of the Slave Ship Zong?
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Where to site a museum to the Industrial Revolution
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Commander of H Division: Dream job or nightmare?
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1880-2004: How good was the view from the Reichstag?
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What is the story of Germany between 1890–1945?
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How much was Kaiser Wilhelm II’s ability to rule shaped by his early life?
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What problems did Kaiser Wilhelm II face 1890-1914?
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Was there anything new about 20th century crimes?
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How much did the police-force change after 1900?
Edexcel, Crime and Punishment, GCSE 2016, Introductory Lessons
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Did the 20th century see the biggest change in the punishment of offenders?
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Was Emily Davison a Martyr for the Suffragette cause?
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Preparing a news bulletin about the start of World War One
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Should your history department spend money on Lenin artefacts?
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What really happened in Petrograd in October 1917?
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Sarah Barnes’ World War One Memorial Campaign
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Why was World War One described as ‘Great’?
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The USA in the 1920s – 11 enquiry saver package
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Why was there an economic boom in the 1920s?
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Who shared in the US economic boom of the 1920s?
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How should we remember carmaker Henry Ford?
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Hollywood scandals: Can you predict the contents of the Hays Code?
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Were Italian anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti innocent?
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Why did the village of Rosewood disappear?
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What was America’s Monkey Trial all about?
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Does Al Capone embody the American Dream?
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What can a cartoon tell us about the causes of the Great Depression?
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The Cinderella Man: a metaphor for 1920s America?
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What should go on the cover of a book about USA 1919-41?
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What was life like in Britain during the 1930s?
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Why did James Maley go to Spain?
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Was the Battle of Cable Street a turning point in the fight against British Fascism?
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How should we remember Winston Churchill?
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Germany 1918-1945 – 27 enquiry lesson package
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The Rise of Adolf Hitler in Germany: An overview
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Was Germany stabbed in the back?
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Do you agree with a memoir from 1923?
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A gallery caption for a German Nationalist Party Leaflet.
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Rate a historian’s description of the Treaty of Versailles?
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What to include in a documentary on the Treaty of Versailles.
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Do you agree with the memoir of a young German living in 1923?
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Who was the biggest threat to the Weimar Republic 1919-23?
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Putsches or money: which threatened early Weimar the most? AQA
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Was the Munich Putsch of 1923 a Success or Failure?
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Why did people join the Nazi Party?
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How would you design a Weimar election poster from 1924?
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Was Stresemann really the saviour of Weimar?
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Can you always trust websites to get it right about the Munich Putsch?
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Why didn’t many people vote Nazi 1924-29?
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Why did Adolf Hitler become Chancellor of Germany in 1933?
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Why did Hitler become Chancellor mystery
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How did Hitler manage to become a dictator?
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Was Nazi Germany really a paradise like an ex-Nazi described it?
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Why did fewer people criticise the Nazis in pubs and bars after 1933?
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How do historians disagree about the Gestapo?
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Which historian is correct about the Gestapo?
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Was Henry Metelmann a typical young Nazi?
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How prescient were the Social Democrats about ‘The Worker in the Swastika state’?
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Triumph of the Will: Can you beat the Online Expert?
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What really happened on 8-9 November 1938?
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Was the Holocaust during World War Two inevitable?
Germany 1890-1945, AQA, GCSE 2016, Key Stage 3: 20th Century
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The opposition cocktail party – why did so few people oppose the Nazis?
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How effective were Nazi policies towards the young?
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Can you solve the mystery of the Nazi-Soviet Pact?
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How far did the Nazis achieve their aims?
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What can a song tell us about life in a Nazi Labour Camp?
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Guide to teaching AQA conflict and tension between East and West 1945-1972
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Guide to teaching Edexcel Period Study: Super Power Relations and the Cold War 1941-91
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Yalta ‘Big Three’ World War Two Conference Role Play
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What and where was the Cold War?
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Why couldn’t the USA and USSR be friends?
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Why did the Grand Alliance begin to fail in 1945?
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Who did most to develop the Cold War 1945-47?
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Who should win cartoon of the year for 1945?
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How much can we trust internet sites to tell the truth about The Berlin Blockade?
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What do 1950s sci-fi movies reveal about American fears and attitudes to the Cold War?
Edexcel, AQA, Conflict 1945-72, Cold War 1941-91, GCSE 2016, Key Stage 3: 20th Century
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Why did America really get involved in Vietnam?
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Who can tell us most about the nuclear arms race, Robert McNamara or Dr Strangelove?
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What were the consequences of the Hungarian Uprising?
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Was the Berlin Wall really built to just annoy the West?
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How should we tell the story of the Berlin Wall?
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What went wrong at the Bay of Pigs?
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Cold War Cuban Missile Crisis Decision Making
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What really prevented war during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
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How close did the Cold War come to Nuclear War?
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Was the Prague Spring another Hungary?
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What were the consequences of the Prague Spring?
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How real was Detente?
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Who was to blame for the Second Cold War?
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Did Gorbachev kill the Soviet Union?
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Why did the Soviet Union invade Afghanistan in 1979?
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What were the consequences of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan?
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Vidal Sassoon mystery: What was Vidal up to in the 40s and 50s?
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Why did American soldiers shoot at My Lai?
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Black Britain: Was Lord Kitchener Right? Was London the ‘Place to be’?
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A Radio Discussion about the history of Black Britain
