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Early 20th Century (KS2)

Battle plans, maps and unit war diaries chronicle the conflict between Europe's great powers.

From 1915 read the Cabinet discussions on the progress of the war at the highest level.

Topics
- Focus on Film
  Investigate film as a historical source
  
  Key stage 2 - 5
- Moving Here
  200 years of the history of migration to England
  
  Key stage 2 - 4
- Crime and Punishment
  From heretics and poachers to car crime and walkie-talkies
  
  Key stage 2 - 5
- - Britain 1906-18
    Contrast, contradiction and change
    
    Key stage 2 - 5
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Lessons
- How We Were Taught
  What was school like 100 years ago?
  
  Key stage 2 - 3

Workshops
- What is History? (KS2)
  How do historians know what to believe?
  
  Key stage 2

Videoconferences
- What is History? (KS2)
  How do historians know what to believe?
  
  Key stage 2

Virtual classroom
- What is History? (KS2)
  How do historians know what to believe?
  
  Key stage 2
- Virtual Classroom Taster
  Introduction to our innovative interactive online sessions
  
  Key stage 1 - 5

Time periods

History by numbers

60

Age of Edward VII at his coronation
628

Victoria Crosses awarded for actions during the First World War
181

3rd class survivors of the sinking of the Titanic
9,200,000

Women voters in 1918 election
19,240

British soldiers killed on the first day of the Battle of the Somme

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