Tag: GCSE

New resources about York’s medieval Jewish community and life before the Romani Genocide

by YorkClio, posted in Resources, Subject development

As Holocaust Memorial Day is approaching we are sharing these resources we have created related to Jewish and Roma/Sinti history. Actually, they are resources you can embed into your curriculum and teach at any time.

York’s Medieval Jewish community

Working with historians at the University of York, we have created this resource Padlet. It shares recent scholarship that has revealed new knowledge about York’s 13th century Jewish community – after the terrrible massacre of 1190. It suggests how you could work with this material in class. It also provides images, maps and other useful links. This is medieval English history as much as Jewish history and the new material shows how integrated the York’s Jewish citizens were at the time.

Life before the Romani Genocide

It is established good practice to teach about life before the Holocaust, so that European Jewish people are not presented just as victims. This PowerPoint has been created so that the same can apply when teaching about the Romani Genocide. In a short amount of lesson time, pupils can learn something of the vibrancy of Romani people before the genocide and the many ways that they were part of European life in the early 20th century.

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Stories of slavery, abolition, industry – York and area

by YorkClio, posted in Resources, Subject development

Thanks to the University of York Borthwick Archives and Professor Jim Walvin, we have been focusing on York and area in connection with slavery, abolition and industry. This complex topic could be approached using a local focus. To help teachers, here is a Padlet of ideas, knowledge and resources to help with planning and teaching. There are:

  • Resources relating to the two people who lived in York having been compensated for owning enslaved people – they are on the UCL Legacies database.
  • Images from the Harewood Lascelles archive.
  • Clips of Prof Walvin giving perspectives on abolition.
  • A story from letters by a methodist missionary on Nevis at the time of abolition.
  • Maps, timelines and images
  • A short reading/listening list for busy teachers.

Please do let us know if there is anything you would like adding to this. The intention is not to replicate what is elsewhere, but to keep a specific local/ new focus.

Podcasts for A Level students

by YorkClio, posted in Resources

Huge thanks to Daisy Kemp and the volunteer history undergraduate team (Hannah, James, Madeline, Molly, Nell and Niamh) at the University of York. They have worked hard this term to create podcasts for keen school historians. Three podcasts are now loaded here on the YorkClio History Nerds site with supplementary materials. Each one has been created by undergraduate historians working with academics and thinking about the needs of school students who want to learn more history. They take a different approach to the popular school topics of the Tudors and Stuarts, Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia, and China Vietnam. Each one is designed to introduce school history students to a different aspect of the history of the period. They can be used by teachers with students, or listened to by students in their own time – great for securing knowledge and thinking harder about history!

Students reading Marc Morris on Eleanor of Castile

by YorkClio, posted in Resources

Thanks to Henry Walton of Manor CE Academy for sharing this reading task. Students are supported to read historian Marc Morris’ account of Eleanor of Castile, wife of Edward I. There is a glossary and a worksheet to accompany the reading.

Eleanor of Castile

Eleanor of Castile – worksheet

Eleanor of Castile Glossary

GCSE Public Health using York Archives

by YorkClio, posted in Resources

Huge thanks to Heather Sherman, York College, for generously sharing this work using York’s city archives. Heather has put together this booklet of sources about public health in York for GCSE students.

The booklet is a teacher pack (this document: GCSE Public Health York Archives Material_Teacher Pack ) that links the research to the OCR, AQA and Edexcel GCSE History specifications. There are suggested activities/ questions to use with students to develop their thinking and link national history to a local context.

Heather has also provided a blank copy of each of the sources (separate sources) for use to design your own activities/ resource pack for students. She suggests that colleagues use any of the glossaries/ questions/ activities that she has designed when creating their own resources, or create their own, or use a mix of both. The suggested activities/ questions are not intended to be an exhaustive list and can be adapted to suit different students.

As a very experienced A level teacher, Heather also has her eye to what students may need to be able to do if they decide to carry on their history studies.

Meanwhile she … Aletta Jacobs

by YorkClio, posted in Resources

Aletta Jacobs was one of the first women in the Netherlands to become a doctor and opened one of the first birth control clinics for poor and working-class women in 1882. Thanks to Caitlin Sutherland, who completed her UoY PGCE in June and is about to start teaching in Uxbridge, for putting this ‘meanwhile she’ together. It will be useful for colleagues to add diversity to the part of the medicine / health through time course where Robert Koch is busy identifying bacteria. Meanwhile she Aletta Jacobs

Investigating the culture of a period

by YorkClio, posted in Resources

Inspired by a session at the Historical Association conference, staff at York College have encouraged their students to engage with the cultural milieu of the periods they study at A Level. This is to help them gain the sense of period and place they need in order to make sense of their new specific topic knowledge. The results of two of them are here. There is a document on culture in Germany in the 20th century and one on 15th and 16th century English and European culture. Nice for other A level students, useful also for students doing GCSE units on all or part of these topics, and definitely nerd-y knowledge – thanks for sharing!

20th century German culture

15th and 16thC English culture