Second World War (KS3)

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Our records cover the entire conflict from Churchill's desk downwards. Read the PM's signed orders and top level diplomacy with Roosevelt and Stalin alongside reports from all theatres of war and every aspect of the situation on the Home Front - from what was shown in the nation's cinemas to recipes for British kitchens.

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
- Home Front
  Fighting the war at home
  
  Key stage 2 - 3
- - World War II
    Take a fresh look at the biggest conflict in history
    
    Key stage 3 - 4
  - Heroes & Villains
    Investigate the movers and shakers of the 20th century
    
    Key stage 3 - 5
  - Crime and Punishment
    From heretics and poachers to car crime and walkie-talkies
    
    Key stage 2 - 5
  - The Art of War
    Britain's war artists capture the conflict in artwork
    
    Key stage 2 - 5
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Lessons
- Adolf Hitler
  Was Hitler a 'passionate lunatic'?
  
  Key stage 3 - 4
- Government Posters
  How did Britain encourage people at home to help win the war?
  
  Key stage 2 - 3
- Convincing the Colonies
  How did Britain try to keep the support of West Africans?
  
  Key stage 3 - 4
- - The Home Front
    How did people prepare for the war at home?
    
    Key stage 2 - 3
  - Hitler Assassination Plan
    How did the British plan to kill Hitler?
    
    Key stage 3 - 4
  - Belsen Concentration Camp 1945
    What did the British find when they entered?
    
    Key stage 3 - 4
  - Evacuation to Canada
    How much care was really taken?
    
    Key stage 2 - 3
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Workshops
- Britain and the Holocaust
  From the Nuremburg Laws to the Final Solution
  
  Key stage 3 - 4

Videoconferences
- Britain and the Holocaust
  From the Nuremburg Laws to the Final Solution
  
  Key stage 3 - 4

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3900

Tonnage of bombs dropped on the city of Dresden in February 1945
1,700,000

Estimated number of Axis and Soviet casualties of the Battle of Stalingrad
1,494,000,000

Cinema tickets sold in Britain in 1942
31,400,000,000

Value in dollars of supplies shipped to Britain by the US under the lend-lease agreement
1

Number of eggs per person per week allowed under wartime rationing

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