History for key
stage 3
Our history pages are based on the National Curriculum.
Some directly cover the topics; others give a broader perspective
on the period or topic, which helps pupils put their knowledge
into context.
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Unit
1. Introductory unit what's it all about?
In key stage 3, pupils will learn:
- to recall knowledge from previous history lessons
- to place events and people in chronological order
- to listen to and work with others
- to make judgements about what makes an individual important and to provide reasons
- that different historical sources can supply different sorts of information
- that several different types of source are useful for finding out things in history
- that history helps explain the present
- to ask questions to gain clarification or further information
- to use appropriate vocabulary
- that historians need to use more than one source to find out about a person or event in the past
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Unit 2. How did medieval monarchs keep control? |
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William the Conqueror’s laws |
Castles
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Crime in the Middle Ages |
Punishment in Medieval England |
Unit 3. How hard was life for medieval people in town and country? |
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Life in Medieval England
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The Black Death |
The Peasants’ Revolt |
Wharram Percy – a medieval village |
Unit 4. How did the medieval church affect people's lives? |
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Church in Medieval England |
The power of the Church |
Medieval realms – St Mary’s Abbey |
Becket |
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Unit 5. Elizabeth I - how successfully did she tackle the problems of her reign? |
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Elizabethan propaganda |
Chronology of the reign of Elizabeth I |
Queen Elizabeth I |
How effectively did Elizabeth solve the problems? |
Unit 6. What were the achievements of the Islamic states 600-1600?
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A short history of Islam |
Ottoman web site |
Islam and the Crusades |
Medieval Crusades |
Unit 7. Images of an age. What can we learn from portraits 1500-1750? |
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National Portrait Gallery |
The Great Seal |
Images of an age |
Tudor Britain |
Unit 8. The civil wars. Was England 'turned upside down' in the seventeenth century?
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The Civil War |
Oliver Cromwell |
The Civil War |
The world turned upside down |
Unit 9. From Glorious Revolution to the '45 how united was the kingdom? |
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The Act of Union |
The Union of 1707 and its consequences |
The making of the Union |
The Union Flag |
Unit 10. France 1789-94 why was there a revolution? |
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The French revolution |
French Revolution from 1795 |
French revolution glossary |
Archive resources on the French revolution |
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Unit 11. Industrial changes: action and reaction |
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The Industrial Revolution |
The Industrial Revolution and your local area |
Change and the industrial revolution |
How the Industrial Revolution affected the countryside |
Unit 12. Snapshot 1900 what was British middle-class life like? |
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Britain through time |
Photo archive |
The Titanic |
The census |
Unit 13. Mughal India and the coming of the British, 1526-1857 how did the Mughal Empire rise and fall? |
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Mughal India – the British Museum |
Mughal Empire |
Religion and ethics - Islam |
Jahangir |
Unit 14. The British Empire how was it that, by 1900, Britain controlled nearly a quarter of the world? |
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India |
The British Empire & Commonwealth Museum |
The British Empire |
‘The sun never sets...’ |
Unit 15. Black peoples of America from slavery to equality? |
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Slavery |
Native North Americans |
Martin Luther King |
Native Americans – interactive activities |
Unit 16. The franchise why did it take so much longer for British women to get the vote? |
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Emmeline Pankhurst |
The Suffragettes |
Source material on the Suffragettes |
A brief history of the Suffragette Movement |
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Unit 17. Divided Ireland why has it been so hard to achieve peace in Ireland?
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Irish timeline |
The end of British rule in Ireland |
Home Rule for Ireland |
Irish Free State |
Unit 18. Hot war, cold war - why did the major 20 th century conflicts affect so many people? |
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The Cold War |
The Imperial War Museum |
Main causes of World War II |
The First World War |
Unit 19. How and why did the Holocaust happen? |
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The Holocaust |
Why did the Holocaust happen? |
Auschwitz |
Anne Frank
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Unit 20. Twentieth-century medicine how has it changed the lives of people? |
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School meals |
Welfare reforms |
20 th century medical advances |
Medicine through time |
Unit 21. From Aristotle to the atom: scientific discoveries that changed the world? |
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Inventions |
Twentieth century inventions |
Technology at home |
Clockworks |
Unit 22. The role of the individual for good or ill? |
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Guy Fawkes |
Historic figures |
Martin Luther King |
Adolf Hitler |
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| Curriculum in Scotland and Wales Our current pages are based on the National Curriculum for England. |
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History curriculum in Scotland
5-14 curriculum – People in the past
Link for Scottish history |
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History curriculum in Wales
Resources for Welsh history |
Key
stage 1 history
Key stage 2 history
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