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Monarchy, Democracy, Power and the People (AQA/OCR)

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Award-winning resources for history teachers and students aged 11-18.

ActiveHistory provides interactive simulations, self-marking quizzes, lesson plans, worksheets and multimedia activities designed by full-time history teacher Russel Tarr.

Build and deliver complete history courses with resources for classroom teaching, remote learning and independent study - from multimedia lectures to interactive games and historical simulations.

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World History teaching resources for the high school classroom: lesson plans, worksheets, quizzes and simulation games for KS3, IGCSE, IB and A-Level teachers.

These materials can be used to support the following GCSE British History thematic study units:

Britain: Power and the people: c1170 to the present day (AQA)

Power: Monarchy and Democracy in Britain c.1000 to 2014 (OCR)

1066 and the Norman Conquest

The Murder of Becket

The Peasants' Revolt

The Wars of the Roses

The Princes in the Tower

The Reformation of Henry VIII, including the Pilgrimage of Grace

The Gunpowder Plot

The causes and consequences of the English Civil War

The causes of the French Revolution | The events of the French Revolution | The French Revolution and Napoleon

The Slave Trade | The Anti-Slavery movement

Crime and Punishment in the 19th Century

Social and Political Outcomes of the Whitechapel Murders

Government control in World War One

The Home Front in World War Two

The Liberal Government 1906-1916, including the struggle for Women's Rights

Winston Churchill: Hero or Villain?

Democracy and Referenda

Election Systems

Party Ideologies

Pressure Groups

The European Union

Thatcherism, Devolution and postwar economic development in Britain

Political Concepts (inc. Authority, Legitimacy, Human Rights, Citizenship)


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