Kenilworth Castle (Family Discovery Packs S.)
by Gail Durbin, Liz Hollinshead, Ross Jellicoe, and Peter Stone
Aimed primarily at family groups, this series of packs is also intended as a useful resource for teachers planning site visits. Each one contains two activity cards which encourage observational skills, and a wallchart with practical ideas to use in the classroom. Focusing on Kenilworth Castle, the activities in this pack help children to understand why changes were made to the castle in the past, and might be needed in the present, to conserve the buildings. The wallchart shows how to make your...
Visiting the Past Pack B of 4
This visually stunning series focuses on world heritage sites, representative of different eras, peoples, places and historical events. The reader is given a narrative tour of each site to discover what can be learned from the surviving evidence - why and how the place was built, the daily lives of the people who lived there and the surviving evidence that can help us to reconstruct the place when it was in use.
Roman and Saxon Gallery at the Yorkshire Museum (Longman museum activity guides)
by H. Cox
Medical Care and Public Health (Studies in British social & economic history)
by Alastair McIntosh Gray
This source book aims to provide material for assessment and coursework as a back-up to normal classroom teaching. Drawing on such sources as paintings and film stills, memoirs, speeches and fictional reconstructions, the text examines the role of medicine in the 19th century.
Comprehensive notes and activities to support New Explore History, including curriculum correlation.
The Stalinist Empire (Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union)
by Ted Gottfried
Chronicles the years of Joseph Stalin's iron-fisted reign in the Soviet Union, from the time of Lenin's death to the dawn of World War II.
Irish Potato Famine (Great Escapes)
by Dennis Brindell Fradin and Judy Fradin
The regimes of Brezhnev and Gorbachev, and the transition from stagnation, through reform, to the ultimate collapse of the Soviet Union form the principal focus of this book. Developments in both foreign and domestic spheres are covered and the whole period is put into historical perspective. The book considers what has changed and why "glasnost" and "perstroika", greeted with both enthusiasm and apprehension in many quarters, failed to solve the problems of the Soviet Union and ultimately haste...
Aspects of British History Beyond 1066 Pack A of 2 (Aspects of British History Beyond 1066)
by Catherine Chambers
The Aspects of British History Beyond 1066 series looks at significant developments, events and turning points in Britain's history from 1066 onwards. Each book describes events as they unfolded at the time as well as the effects that they have had on the Britain we know today.
Explaining the Russian Revolution: a Student's Guide (Explaining History Study Guides)
by Nick Shepley
Britain Since 1930 (Heinemann Our World S.) (Primary History)
by Rosemary Rees and Susan J. Styles
This book looks at the history of European anti-semitism and how this was exploited by the Nazis - leading to a systematic programme of persecution and ultimately the Final Solution. It discusses the myriad and complex causes of the holocaust, posing question such as: Was it driven by ancient racial prejudice or by the political and economic trauma Germany suffered after the First World War? Were the German people peculiarly susceptible to fascism? and, How important was the Allies' reluctance t...
Timetravellers guide to Roman London