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Here<\/a> is a festive list of Christmas-themed History lessons for all secondary school year groups!<\/h2>\n

You can also\u00a0download this new set of 25 ‘baubles’ of historical events<\/a>\u00a0that took place over the Christmas season to make your very own Xmas (his)Tree!<\/p>\n

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Here is a festive list of Christmas-themed History lessons for all secondary school year groups! You can also\u00a0download this new set of 25 ‘baubles’ of historical events\u00a0that took place over the Christmas season to make your very own Xmas (his)Tree!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4130,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[236,242,890,889],"class_list":["post-4129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history-teachers","tag-classroom","tag-create","tag-histree","tag-xmas"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3680,"url":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/igcse-gcse-history\/gifts-and-christmas-cards-of-world-war-one\/","url_meta":{"origin":4129,"position":0},"title":"Gifts and Christmas Cards of World War One","author":"Russel Tarr","date":"December 6, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"In this new stand-alone lesson, the teacher will start by delivering this\u00a0ActiveHistory Teacher Presentation\u00a0(which comes complete with a useful video clip) to outline some of the gifts that were marketed to soldiers in World War One. 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