History

Podcasts - Podcasts that focus on history and provide insight and better understanding of historical events. Listen at the gym, in the car or when you are waiting for a bus.

Revision sites

notes, past papers, links etc

Online Interactive history revision site

https://senecalearning.com/ - Some free units and some premium that you can pay for.

Youtube

How to Revise History A Level + GCSE (Tips, Essay Writing, and Sources!) | Jack Edwards - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spPulBT-10c

Revision videos by subject and topic - https://revisionvideos.com/subjects

Elizabeth reading

https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/tudor-england/

From halfway down the page, so scroll down!

Middle East reading

https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/modern-world-history-1918-to-1980/the-middle-east-1917-to-1973/

Reading / Radio South Africa

Reading:

Long Walk to Freedom, Nelson Mandela (book)

- Mandela’s autobiography which gives an overview of his life, as well as his thoughts on South Africa’s position & struggle.

No Future Without Forgiveness, Desmond Tutu

Desmond Tutu’s own book on his role in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. This was set up by Mandela’s government to try and restore unity to society after apartheid.

The Bang-Bang Club: Snapshots from a Hidden War, Greg Marinovich and Joao Silva

The Bang-Bang Club was a group of four South African war correspondents – Ken Oosterbroek, Kevin Carter, Greg Marinovich, and Joao Silva – best known for chronicling the volatile final years of apartheid in South Africa. Two of the men, Oosterbroek and Carter, won Pulitzer Prizes for photos taken during the period. Both tragically died shortly after – Oosterbroek was shot while on assignment and Carter committed suicide. The Bang-Bang Club is a harrowing recounting of all four men’s experiences during an important period of South African history.

Hum If You Don't Know the Words, Bianca Marais

A fiction novel Set in Johannesburg in the 1970’s, Hum If You Don’t Know the Words is a searing chronicle of one of the most tumultuous and violent periods of the apartheid era. Played out against the backdrop of the Soweto Uprising, a series of protests that were met with a brutal and deadly response by South African authorities, Hum tells the story of a young white girl named Robin and a Xhosa woman named Beauty bound together by tragedy and desperation.

Radio Show - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0544knd/episodes/player

South African poet presents the modern South Africa, as seen by artists, poets and the street community. How has South Africa changed in their perspectives since apartheid?

Short notes on South Africa – different topics on the bars down the right hand side

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/index_section12.shtml

Watching / Reading list South Africa

Documentary:

BBC archive – anything that has been broadcast by the BBC about South Africa. Some interesting clips from the 40s onwards which show how apartheid was viewed in the UK

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/apartheid/

Tainted Heroes Documentary - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXiuO5Guds4

Freely available on youtube, Tainted Heroes questions the idea of the ANC being South Africa’s ‘heroes’ and highlights the violence that the group has brought to society.

Film:

Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (Film)

- South Africa’s politics from Mandela’s perspective. Shows his upbringing, experience of apartheid, resistance to apartheid and his prison sentence. Note how the movement changes while he is in prison and international involvement is documented.

Tsotsi

- Film set in Alexandra township around the year 2000 (just after our course ends). It shows lifestyle in the townships and focuses on youth/gang culture. Shows Africans post-apartheid – has it changed? Also useful for understanding youth culture and violence in 1980s

BBC People’s Century documentary Skin Deep 1957 – goes between Apartheid and US Civil Rights protests.

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZtAECC3BOc

Invictus

- Shows South Africa under Mandela’s Presidency and after apartheid has ended. However, it explores continued racial tensions and how united South Africa was under Mandela.

Cry Freedom

- Very highly rated film about Steve Biko. Helps to give background on black consciousness and Biko’s work. The film also explores how Biko’s white friend, Donald Woods, exposed the South African government’s murder of Biko

Catch a Fire

- A film that explores MK’s role in the resistance movement and the attacks they carried out throughout the 1980s.It was written by Shawn Slovo, who’s father Joe Slovo, was leader of MK.

Year 11 Pre-Course Material:

History Summer+List.docx