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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.
World History teaching resources for the high school classroom: lesson plans, worksheets, quizzes and simulation games for KS3, IGCSE, IB and A-Level teachers.
This page is updated daily to provide the latest history-related news, podcasts and anniversaries. You can sign up for the weekly email newsletter which provides a list of forthcoming historical anniversaries and recently released podcasts. You can also make use of the Historical Anniversaries Calendar for the current academic year.
Anniversaries [embed into YOUR website!]
Births (50 years ago today): 1976 – Colin Farrell, Irish actor[50]
Births (50 years ago today): 1976 – Matt Harpring, American basketball player and sportscaster
Deaths (950 years ago today): 1076 – Waltheof, Earl of Northumbria, English politician (born 1050)
Deaths (700 years ago today): 1326 – Maurice de Berkeley, 2nd Baron Berkeley (born 1271)
Deaths (50 years ago today): 1976 – Jacques Monod, French biologist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1910)
Commemorations:
World No-Tobacco Day
History Quote of the Day
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