Modern World History

Hitler’s ‘racial state’ also turned the apparatus of state oppression against other sections of society.

The valuable contribution of Muslims in an often-whitewashed war.

Britain’s role in the build-up to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.

The tyranny of Stalin’s Russia seen through the eyes of children and young people.

An alternative viewpoint on the Easter Rising highlighting women’s experiences of the event.

Powerless people contest and subvert the powerful in all sorts of subtle, hidden and non-confrontational ways.

A sensitive overview of refugees and migration within a broader historical context.

The COVID-19 pandemic has rendered it more important than ever to understand past pandemics.

The often overlooked systematic extermination of people with physical and learning disabilities by the Nazi regime.

The story of the Holocaust is far greater than what took place at Auschwitz-Birkenau and other Nazi camp, and this list offers a sensitive compendium to approach it in its entirety.

To understand the Holocaust, and teach effectively about this challenging subject, it is essential to look at authentic personal accounts of those who lived through it, by humanising the study.

This list aims to combine a broad overview of the Stasi’s history with a range of usable stories that will illuminate the history and engage students.

A fascinating insight into the often overlooked role women played in the Special Operations Executive secret organisation, and the contribution made by female spies and secret agents in the Second World War.

Views about the Arab-Israeli conflict tend to be polarised. The issues are sensitive, so you may want to acquire more knowledge to have the confidence to discuss them. These materials include different perspectives in a non-judgemental way.

South Africa under apartheid: from the perspectives of women, children and the Anti-Apartheid Movement

These resources discuss the nature of the segregated South African sporting experience, offering a balanced discussion of the international sports boycotts and the local opposition within South Africa.

These materials enable students to see what Black Power activists said and did and to gain an in-depth understanding of their struggle for civil rights.

These resources will help you to teach Vietnamese perspectives on the American War in Vietnam in a sensitive and comprehensive way.

The invasion of Iraq in 2003 by the USA and its allies was controversial at the time, leading to mass global protests.

These resources aim to help teachers and students discuss the war from the point of view of reparation rather than destruction.

The starting point in the fight for civil rights is difficult to determine, so the sources here focus on the early influencers in the civil rights movement, including W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells and Mary White Ovington.

These resources discuss Afghan history and women’s rights and include material about Afghan girls’ and women’s lives under the Taliban.