Useful organisations
BBC Education Information BBC White City 201 Wood Lane London W12 7TS www.bbc.co.uk/education
BECTa Millburn Hill Road Science Park Coventry CV4 7JJ www.becta.org.uk/becta_home.cfm
British Museum Education Department Great Russell Street London WC1B 3DG www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/
Channel 4 Schools PO Box 100 Warwick CV34 6TZ www.channel4.com/schools
Commission for Racial Equality Elliott House 10-12 Allington Street London SW1E 5EH www.cre.gov.uk/
Commonwealth Institute Kensington High Street London W8 6NQ www.commonwealth.org.uk/
English Heritage Education Service 429 Oxford Street London WC1R 2HD www.english-heritage.org.uk/
Historical Association 59A Kennington Park Road London SE11 4JH www.history.org.uk/
Holocaust Educational Trust BCM Box 7892 London WC1N 3XX www.het.org.uk
Imperial War Museum Education Office Lambeth Road London SE1 6HZ www.iwm.org.uk/
National Army Museum Royal Hospital Road Chelsea London SW3 4HT www.national-army-museum.ac.uk
National Museum of Photography, Film & Television Education Department Bradford BD1 1NQ www.nmpft.org.uk/home.asp
National Portrait Gallery Education Department St Martin's Place London WC2H 0HE www.npg.org.uk/
National Railway Museum Education Unit Office Leeman Road York YO26 4XJ www.nmsi.ac.uk/nrm/html/home_pb/menu.htm
The National Trust 36 Queen Anne's Gate London SW1H 9AS www.nationaltrust.org.uk/
National Waterways Museum Education Service Llanthony Warehouse Gloucester Docks Gloucester GL1 2EH www.nwm.org.uk/
Royal Armouries Museum Armouries Drive Leeds LS10 1LT www.armouries.org.uk/
Victoria and Albert Museum South Kensington London SW7 2RL www.vam.ac.uk/
Useful resources
Exemplification of standards: history, (SCAA, 1996, order code: Hi/96/471)
Use of language - key stage 3 history, (SCAA, 1996, order code: COM/96/656)
Optional tests and tasks (key stage 3) in history, (SCAA, 1996)
| Unit 1 |
- Oliver Cromwell
- The Jacobite Rebellion of 1745 (order code: KS3/96/545)
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| Unit 2 |
- Nineteenth-century industrial towns
- Popular protest movements c.1810-1850 The Luddites (order code: KS3/96/546)
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| Unit 3 |
- The fall of the Bastille (introductory enquiry)
- The French Revolution (further enquiry) (order code: KS3/96/547)
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| Unit 4 |
- Dunkirk
- The changing nature of warfare
- The role of women
- Europe in the inter-war period (order code: KS3/96/548)
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Extended writing in key stage 3 history, (SCAA discussion paper no.8, 1997, order code: COM/97/637)
Teaching History, published quarterly by the Historical Association
There are many useful websites for work in history. Below are examples of useful 'gateway' sites.
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