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ActiveHistory provides educational, award-winning interactive simulations, decision-making games, self-marking quizzes, high-quality worksheets and detailed lesson plans for the school history classroom. All resources have been designed by full-time history teacher Russel Tarr.
An ActiveHistory subscription provides everything you need to construct and deliver a History course from start to finish for the entire 11-18 age range!
These consist not just of lesson plans, worksheets and teacher notes, but also multimedia lectures and interactive games and historical simulations ideal for remote learning and self-study.
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 (300 years ago today): 1725 – Abdul Hamid I, Ottoman sultan (d. 1789)
Births (100 years ago today): 1925 – John Ehrlichman, American lawyer, 12th White House Counsel (d. 1999)
Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – Ramin Bahrani, American director, producer, and screenwriter
Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – Isolde Kostner, Italian skier
Deaths (550 years ago today): 1475 – Georges Chastellain, Burgundian chronicler and poet
Deaths (100 years ago today): 1925 – George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, English politician, 35th Governor-General of India (b. 1859)
Deaths (0 years ago today): 2025 – Eddie Jordan, Irish businessman, television personality and motorsport team owner (b. 1948)[62]
Commemorations:
International Day of the Francophonie
International Day of Happiness
History Quote of the Day
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